Bright Open 2009 - Task One, Almost

The comp started Saturday and the weather has been horrible, until today.  We had a SW aloft and NW coming up the valley down low, and that might explain why the task was a 52km zig zag skally wag never getting that far away from launch.  

We got in the air, and up to a nice cloud base and got started on the course, but a pilot crashed into the trees near launch and the paramedics called in the helo, so that stopped the task.

I hear his injuries were not severe, but they couldn't have been minor if they called the helo...  I hope he recovers quickly and hate it when one of our own gets hurt doing something that should be easy and fun...

Anyway, we tried and tomorrow is another day - stay tuned.

Brett