Friday 8 August 2014

Day 9

Grid Day 9

4-5,000' cloud bases today with a prediction of consistent weather on task for a change, so a 360km racing task was set to the West up towards Berlin. All went as predicted except for a slight soft patch up near the second turn point. One below average thermal at this level is all it takes to slow you down 5 or 6kph and make a big difference to your placings.

John did well enough to hang onto his 3rd placing with a 16th for the day meaning he stays in touch with the Polish pilots who are running 1st and 2nd overall in the 18m class. In the 15m Sebastian Kawa from Poland is looking pretty certain so the locals are looking strong moving into the last day.

Possibly a blue day tomorrow for the last day so it will be interesting to see how it all plays out.

Grid help looking for a glider

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