Day 3 - Contest Day 1

It is a clear morning here in Benalla. It looks like our 15m and 18m Team will finally have their first contest day. The forecast calls for blue conditions with 5kts lift to 5000ft. Not a great day for Australia but certainly flyable.

Tasks for today are assigned speed tasks, also called racing tasks.

15m Task: AST 337 km

18m Task: AST 431 km

 

All our gliders are positioned on the grid. First launch has been called for 13:00 which gives our pilots the opportunity to get out of the heat and rest. The launch order today is 18m Class, Open Class, 15m Class. So we have Dave and Jerzy in the front of the grid and Luke and Sergei at the back.

It takes about one hour and twenty minutes to launch the entire grid.

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