Tasks 2, 3, 4, 5

Sunday. Deck take-off, then a navigation task, having to exactly follow lines on the chart, looking for photos and markers, and all at a pre-declared ground speed. Then a precision landing at an outfield, except it was a touch and go, since it was also the start of the next nav task, following a series of curves and looking for photos/markers. The task ended with a precision landing - this is landing in a box 100m by 25m, divided into sections which score different points. The closer you land to the start of the box, the more points you get. Quite a few good scores in the final landing, we got a few 250 points in the bag.

One minor hitch was that Competition Director Jan Hyncica is in bed with a fever, so things didn't go quite as smoothly since deputy Jan Bem had to step in. They couldn't decide which photos were to be used for the first nav task, so there were none! We were given a sheet saying 'no photos for task 2'. Made life a little bit easier. Jan (Hyncica) must be allergic to dancing, since he was leading the way at the opening ceremony party last night.

After landing, we had to go into a quarantine area and were given 15 mins to mark up where we thought we'd seen photos or markers. There's loads of marshals, and after a few warm up glitches things seem to be better run on the ground. Here's Hadders about to mark the spot with an X.



Owain, scrutinising his map carefully.



It was hard work today. It's got blowy so the groundspeed bit was difficult. There's now free flying while we weigh fuel for an efficiency task tomorrow, briefing later this evening.