Everybody is recovering from yesterdays task, a very mixed day when the weather conditions made for some very interesting flying and some significant changes on the scores. The task was a type of sequential nav on two circles. The intention being that you would fly around the outer circle until seeing a photo; you would then turn onto the inner circle and fly that and so on.Imagine trying to turn a target into cog. Miss a marker and you would carry on oblivious until picking back up on the correct circle-some pilots returned with more teeth than others.The organisers upped the workload considerable by also adding a ground speed score to the task -oh and a few other markers on/off track as well .... and 20kt winds!
The planning part of the task enabled several members of the team to demonstrate their Blue Peter Skills with various shapes and templates being manufactured from Acetate and card. The take off window was large with competitors being separated by 3 minute gaps. In the single seat weightshift Richard had another good day and coming third in the task -interestingly the task was won by Robert Gassman who decided to fly without groundspeed and concentrate on the nav. David Hadley and Myself had frustrating days, both of us missing the first ground marker and spending alot of time flying on the inner circle when we should have been on the outer one. The start of the task was a little lively in and amongst the valleys and I managed to fly backwards into the start gate whilst Hadley spent rather a long time looking at a wood! In Dave Brooms class Dave lost a little more points to leader Jan Lukas (czech). In the very close two seat weightshift class Grimwood, Keene and Baker were all upstaged by a stunning performance from Frank and Brad. Frank wisely concentrated on Nav and achieved 3rd in class Whilst the others languished in the lower order. This has dropped Rob and Chris down to third and Robbie into Fourth. Simon is currently in ninth. In the the 2 seat fixed wing the Pauls won the task with typically reliable performance. They now lead the class by a comfortable 417 points.
With three days it is all to play for - in all classes one mistake can be fatal for medal aspirations. The organisers have promised an even more complicated task and with another economy task to come there is alot to gain and even more to loose! . Its just started to Rain ! - and Richard Rawes has just asked "has anybody got a spare front strut"!
link to the excellent official scores website
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