Yesterday the launching was delayed due to relights, broken ropes and general chaos. This meant that whilst launching started at 12.30pm the Standard Class gate did not open until almost 2.30pm. The B task had turnpoints on the tops of high mountains, so coupled with a late start and convection lower than the turnpoints very few Standard Class gliders were able to complete the task.
They seem to think that the gliders are Open Class, they launch after Club Class with a gate opening 30 or so minutes later but they are expected to fly up to 20% further. They have outlanded a significant proportion of the Standard Class fleet on 3 out of 4 days.
Alan had a really good day, whilst the other 3 all outlanded.
I have put a photo of Pete’s paddock on the Team Dingo blogsite.
Yesterday several gliders were damaged in outlandings and one pilot is in hospital. All of the Australian outlandings were without incident.
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