Day 8

John in his words had an "irritating day" as a bug wiper didn't retract and spent the rest of the flight rattling around on the leading edge of the wing doing damage and adding a lot of unwanted drag. Despite this John still managed 7th for the day, moved up into third overall and only lost a few points on the leader, Karol Staryszak from Poland.

John as winner on Day 6

Bug wipers sometimes seem more trouble than they are worth as the reliability factor with them seems quite small. The left one on my glider has only ever worked twice, yet the right one is good. So I get one leading edge bug free and the other buggy.

Brett got around in 39th for what was a devalued day (under 3hrs) as the winner did the 325km task in just 2hrs 21mins at a speed of 138kph.

In the 15m class Sebatian Kawa from Poland has one hand firmly on the trophy and he strengthened his hold today with an emphatic win at 129kph over 4kph faster than the next closest. For me, I'm still having trouble reading the weather. There is a particular part of the day that keeps catching me out, where after the sky has initially filled with cumulus a reorganisation of the sky seems to occur where large areas of cumulus simply evaporate and the afternoon sky settles in with nice cumulus but about one quarter of what initially filled the sky. So after getting horribly low after the second turn point I was  simply pleased to have recovered and got around.

I didn't take any photos today so have borrowed some from Jacek Lewinski. Check out his Facebook page he has some great photos.   https://www.facebook.com/studioltv

Pulling JS off the field

Concordia with Leszno in the background

What circa $40M of gliders look like on a grid