Task 3 - 28/Jan/2008

The morning greeted us with a completely blue sky - quite unusual for what I am remember of Killarney last year. Whispers of a long task were circulating. We get to launch and the sun is blasting, a few whispies curl above us. A bit of wind lurks in the forecast. The race ends up being a 139km straight line run NW to Cecil Plaine.

Because of the wind strength, another elapsed time race is called. Some people get high off launch, while quite a few good pilots bomb-out. Getting away from launch was a little easier today, but still not a hand-out.

Almost blue for the first 20k, but downwind an awesome cloud street developes a bit east of course-line, many pilots are lured to it and then have to deal with airspace issues. Ground speeds were fast there....

For sure pilots made goal, but at sunset a lot of pilots are still driving home. I feel for the scorekeeper, as if his job wasn't hard enough, he has to manually check tracklogs for airspace and then compute penalties using a slide-rule and blah blah blah. The forecast looks fresh, which could mean another long task, or, ahh - I won't go there.

Overall scores after 2 tasks.