WCPC Task 4, Final Day

Today was good, conditions were a little better, lowish base but a lot less wind. We had a task worth a 1000 points, which means the task committe did a good job setting the task. The start of the race was more like a Rat Race task:

Launch 1km Exit start
Rabies Peak (1km)
Burnt (400m)
Launch (400m)
Rabies (400m)
Cemetary (1km)
Donato ESS 1km, Goal 400m

Good clouds at the start and easy to stay up, but shady on course. After the 4th TP, as we left Rabies to start towards Cemetary, Woodrat mountain must have blown it's wad of hot air - a bunch of us headed for Burnt/Woodrat to find either massive sink (as was my case) or zero's. While I was packing up, I watch a group of pilots circle in super weak lift, just enough to keep from sinking out for 20 minutes, it took a huge dose of determination and patience and they finally got away, most of them to make goal.

It was a weird day - if you weren't on a comp glider, slow and patient worked well. But pilots landed in a nice spread all along course, and we got nominal time and nominal distance in, so the scoring program was very happy and Eric Reed won the task and took the 1000 points.

Sam Mulder flew well, 22nd overall. I dropped 2 places from the day before, finishing 11th overall. Cumulative Scores are here.

Race Race is in 3 weeks, I will be there for that.

Brett