National Gliding Championships Taupo 2020

Taupo, New Zealand,   2 February 2020 – 15 February 2020

Sat 15th - Last day.

Hurry up and wait.

The weather forecast indicated overdevelopment later in the day, so a task was set for a 1200 takeoff, and gliders were gridded.

It was already overdeveloped. The self-launcher GDE took off to fly to Matamata, but the news from him as our sniffer extraordinaire was all bad. Within 45 minutes he was back at Centennial Park, having not been able to get over the hills just South of Tokoroa.

So here we all are, perhaps not as happy as could be, but waiting, waiting.

Written by: Hugh de Lautour on 15 February 2020 at 00:03.

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1. Tim Bromhead 89.00 km/h
2. Keith Essex 85.34 km/h
3. Patrick Driessen 82.83 km/h
Updated: 19/02/2020, 09:46

Latest task

Task 10, 15 Feb 2020
Task distance: 147.13 km  /  397.04 km  (265.87 km)
Task duration: 2:15:00
Updated: 15/02/2020, 08:27
Task 10, 15 Feb 2020
Task distance: 147.13 km  /  397.04 km  (265.87 km)
Task duration: 2:30:00
Updated: 15/02/2020, 08:24