Thursday, August 21, 2008

A Hot Tuesday

Tuesday brought another navigation task, followed by another powered spot landing and finally two engine off spots. The nav task had some tough penalties fro flying off-track or missing pedicted times at turnpoints. We had some solid scores but no first places. However, there seem to have been some track interpretation problems and we have found some mistakes which may change things in our favour. Hopefully we'll have the results later today.

The spots went very well in conditions which were thermic and windy. Paul Dewhurst, Richard Rawes, Rob Keene and Rob Grimwood all touched down in the first 5 metres on both landings. All the precision landings involve measuring the stopping distance and it was astonishing how many big two seat flexwings touched down and stopped within 50 metres.

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