The comp started in soggy conditions with trailers unable to be parked in the
grass areas which were under water. Gliders were rigged in the cold and wet of
the practise day which was blown out with 25kts of wind. We set tasks and
gridded gliders using hard surfaces only as the entire grass areas on the
aerodrome were unusable. On the first day we only bogged two cars and one
glider but we achieved a competition day. Day 2 proceeded the same then it
rained some more and the wind blew. The Temora ground marshals managed the
impossible and herded the wild cats into gridding on narrow bitumen and car
parks without destroying the airfield grass or losing crew and cars in the bog
holes. Today we managed the extraordinary by gridding about 30 gliders on an
active runway, vacating the grid of all personnel for the Aviation Museum
flying display and had gliders launching within about 15 minutes of the last
museum aircraft display.
Five days of challenging and rewarding flying and happy pilots at the dinner
tonight.
See the results at
http://www.soaringspot.com/nsw2012/results/
Scott
_______________________________________________
Aus-soaring mailing list
[email protected]
To check or change subscription details, visit:
http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring
