Killarny Comp, Day 4

Today started out humid, 70% relative humidity and thunderstorms in the forecast. The north launch was called as our launch - it is about an hours drive through the mountains. An 81 km task was set and pilots began launching into strong winds and a low and rapidly growing cloud base. In just a few minutes one of the two gliders that launched first was whiting out. It looked pretty sketchy but not sketchy enough to keep everyone on the ground. Many pilots didn't even get their wings out of the bag...

A bit before the race was to start, the day was cancelled because big anvil heads on course were dropping a lot of rain. Another hours drive down the mountain...

In yesterday's post I speculated that the day would not be very valid, I guess I don't know enough about the OzGap2005 scoring system, because despite no one in goal and a lot of people not flying very far, the day was worth 900 something points...

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