Sunday 4th July
“Curates Egg” a 3 hours Cat’s Cradle
Start Lasham – fly to Basingstoke BAS – 10 pts
Andover AND – 20 pts
Rivar Hill RIV – 20 pts
Membury MEM – 20 pts
Mortimer MOT – 10 pts
Goring GOR – 10 pts
Thame – THA – 10 pts
Petersfield PTF – 10 pts
Call your Start time as you crossw the Main Runway going North and make a NOTE OF IT!
Your time is up after 3 hours after Start and you then stop scoring TPs and kms.
You can return to Lasham and collect your Land Back bonus after 3 hours
Scoring Parameters:
1 pt per kilometre Down or Cross Wind
1.5 pt per kilometre into Wind
20 pts per West Turning Point
10 pts per East Turning Point
30 pts Finish at Lasham
After such an excellent first day and the promise of 2 more very good days on Monday and Tuesday, it was felt best to set a 3 hour limit on today’s flying. The weather also suggested this the best option and so it turned out. Those that set off early got the best out of the day. The wind was quite a feature becoming 20/25 knots making flying extremely bumpy and controlling gliders a challenge. Cloud base was around 2,500ft and a number didn’t make it back due to the increasing wind and cloud cover.
The furthest distance of 178k and reaching 5 TPs was flown by Justin, winning him the day, again. 5 others exceeded 100k. But Competition Enterprise rules state that a pilot can only be a Day Winner once so today David McCarthy and Sandy Hawkyard collected the bottle being just 36 points behind Justin in their Duo Discus.
Total distance flown by 19 pilots was 1606k with 9 getting home.
