And thats it for this year!
Only the club class and the 15m class flew today. In hindsight, the open class could have flown, but as they say hindsight is 20 20 vision!
Until next year, Cheers from the CD.
1st Competitors are home
LG and PN have landed, but they have reported that conditions have begun to deteriorate.
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Day 4 underway
All gliders are on task. The weather is good with 2m/s climbs up to 6000ft AGL, but we are worried about the clouds flattening out and closing off the good weather like yesterday, so the B tasks have been assigned so that the pilots can get back early.
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Day 3 - Mixed Results
Although the weather prooved to be good - The open class winner doing 145kph, 6 of the 15m class gliders landed out within a few kilometers of each other. The clouds completely covered the ground at their first turn point leading into the second turnpoint which seems to have shut off any lift that there was. All the crews are already in Makoksraal, where they all landed, so they should be back by around 6pm. No damages and all pilots safe!
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Day 3 - Weather looks great!
All gliders are now on task, and the weather looks great! I think that we will have high speeds today!
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Day 2 - Off they go!
All start gates are open. We had 2 re-lights. Cloud base is around 8300ft, but the pilots are reporting consistant climbs of 1 to 2 m/s.
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Day 2 - Lets try again
The weather yesterday proved to be too weak to send the field out. Today's weather is looking much better, so tasks have been set. Weather is lookin better and better - Temperature is 17 degrees and climbing. First launch will be at 12. More updates after launch!
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Day 1 - Supplemental
With only 2 tugs, we managed to launch the grid in about an hour and a half. The conditions are difficult, but with the exception of 3 gliders that have landed back at the airfield, the field is on task. All gliders with the exception of S, are back at the airfield safely. They are battling to find the glider and it is now getting dark, so they may have to go back in the morning. More tomorrow! The glider has been found!!! It is now safely in the trailer and on the way back to the airfield. Chee...
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