Whoops!
A crappy day weather wise and just too many low spots for me, only managed 62kph – never flown so slow. The prediction of thunderstorms and a trough line with heavy overcast meant that they only tasked 15m and Std, the other two classes had a day off. First launch at 10:45am saw only weak climbs to 2500 ft. I found a reasonable climb to 3500 ft near to my start point and with the sky getting blacker decided that I should go. Started with Craig Collings and we had a good glide out towards the southern tip of the first sector of the two hour AAT. The reasonable looking cu cycled and we ended up at 900 ft for about 10 minutes before we finally managed to climb out back to 3000ft. The first sector was dark and cycling and I didn’t go too far in as it looked a bit better towards the Bunyas.
The day never really improved for me, low and slow climbs, even the good looking clouds didn’t have much underneath.
I did a similar distance to Craig and Lisa but was 10-20 minutes slower getting home.
The real issue is that the people who couldn’t get away initially ended up leaving an hour or more later jut as the conditions re-cycled and the cloud thinned out. Peter Trotter couldn’t get to his start point for an hour so didn’t start until 12:25pm – he flew 20kph faster – ouch! John Nicholls had to land for a re-light and couldn’t start until 1pm, but the conditions were better by then and he had a good run – a much happier John. Same story from Miles Gore-Brown, who landed back and started around 1pm to get 77kph
Cheer up you are still our hero
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