Task 4 - 29/Jan/2008

A classic Killarney morning - lots of low and fast moving clouds. Up top we went to the East launch, which has a really amazing view of the gorge which the Condamine river runs through. Lots of waiting around - Andrew was having too much fun radio controlling the wind tech - it was after twelve and base was moving up and the wind was strong enough to ridge soar easily, some comp pilots were getting itchy to go. Things moved quickly after that.

The task went 113km task out near Inglewood with one turnpoint about 70km out to keep pilots close to the Cunningham Hwy. The task went west so the only airspace to deal with is an 8500 foot ceiling- unlike yesterday's task which saw some pilots tangling with a more restrictive Airspace boundary (left purposely un-named) point penalties were awared.

Lots of nice Cu today, but as I watched a gaggle bobble along, I could tell the cores were not well formed and not every climb was to base. It was not magic cloud hopping for sure.

Base wasn't very high and if you didn't get to base, it didn't take long before survival mode kicked in, combine this with course line that went through a giant blue hole and about 60km out and gliders started dropping.

When the gaggles stopped to climb, they still had a ground speed close to trim, it's blowy out here. I don't expect a crowd in goal today. I will get some scores to yous tommorrow.

ciao!