Task 1 - Chelan Open

Good flying conditions today gave us a 58k task out to Sims then to with goal at Leahy. Gotta love these 2 waypoint tasks!

The view over the butte looking back at lake Chelan was priceless... One day I want to fly the mountains here, but yesterday we flew out over the flat, dry wheat fields which are famous for their huge dust devils.

The sky got shaded by high cirrus at the Sims waypoint and a lot of us got low for the first time on the course and the wind was strong down low so it was a slug fest for those of us not shifting gears or just getting lucky.

If you got to Sims high, you turned downwind and had goal on glide... If you got low at Sims, it called for some desperate and creative moves, as Josh Cohn demonstrated by turning towards goal without tagging Sims and getting a low save that put him back up high but half way to goal, so he had to slowly push back into the wind for a long time to get the Sims turnpoint and then blast downwind to goal... Desperate and creative and in goal...

Results are here

Shifting gears was the game at Sims.