US Nationals - Day 7

Last night as we were BBQ'ing and tapping our toes to the Moon Mountain Ramblers, the wind backed off and the high cloud started to clear - it looked as if the trough causing all the high wind was passing over us.

This morning the winds are light so far (10am) and I'd say we could have a task on the last day of the Nats. People are up on the hill already.

The weather is very similar to what it was for the last two tasks and it will be interesting to see if the task committee puts the difficult section of the course at the end instead of the beginning of the route. One thing we have seen here is that the forecasts are pretty good at predicting the wind strength, but not as accurate on the direction...

I would imagine they call a task that isn't too long so as to get people back before dark for the party.

UPDATE AT 2:30 PM:

25 pilots launched in very cross and strong winds. 5 minutes after the start of the race the task was stopped because of the strength of the wind on launch and aloft.

Final Results can be found here

stay tuned