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A DAY ON THE HILL
WE SAT ON THE HILL WITH THE WIND BLOWING OVER THE BACK (AT ASPRES WITH ONLY ONE LAUNCH DIRECTION), ONLY A FEW PILOTS COULD LAUNCH DUE TO POOR LAUNCH CONDITIONS. CAMMO GOT A NICE FLY BACK TO THE CAMPGROUND. i WAS GROUNDED, EVEN AFTER BEING IN A PUSH FOR AN HOUR.
WE HOPE TO FLY TOMORROW
worlds, flight festival and task 3
There are a number of pilots who are feeling a little tired after the bonfire and DJ event in town.
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worlds 3, 4, 5
The worlds have pace that consumes a lot of time and makes it difficult to make posts as well as sell equipment, help with tuning, do my own tuning, fly, stand in a near endless line to have GPS downloads done and attend to every day overheads. The most relaxing time is sleep and flying. I write this as it rains and thunderstorms outside. I have taken off and flown around for 50 minutes, there is no task today. I made some video, photos and when a convergence arrived, I dove down and landed before rain arrived.
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worlds day 1 and 2
The first competition day is a strong North Mistral wind. It is very clear that we do not need to go up the hill.
We had a day of reading and walked up a local hill. I found the clearest Quartz that I have ever seen and a large piece of fossilized coral.
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opening ceremony
Today is the opening ceremony, it is blown out today, as was yesterday and it is likely for the next couple of days.
Yesterday I went kayaking with Blanki, Katha, Davis, Belinda.
Nice party last night here at the camp ground, the strong winds help a lot with the intensity of hang gliding parties. You cant fly the next day anyway!
Today I iron a shirt, have a shave, parade around....then go and listen to a presentation on local meteorology by a local legend sailplane pilot. Folowed by a compulsary safety meeting.
worlds practice 1,2,3,4
The first practice day, I made a local free flight out and return from Charbre. The second day was tricky and slow at Charbre launch, we got away at 3:00 the Australian team did an extended task, 140km, taking in some big mountain ranges in the furthest extent of the usual competition area. I made it 150km to take advantage of being out there and take some photos. I was the only one to make it back to the campground, it was a very similar task and result to the first day of the preworlds. Curt was close to making it back to camp landing a little short on final glide.
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The Airborne Rev
From the OzReport: The Airborne Rev - Scott Barrett, the designer, and Cameron Tunbridge are flying actual prototype
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Support your local world's team
I don't know if this has been mentioned before, but you can support our HG world's team
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off to the worlds
Glen is house sitting and minding the dogs while they stay at home, they have already made good friends. Mon and I are off on a grand adventure. Conrad, Anusha and Cammo left today and Mon and I are off early tommorow.
Thanks all for your kind wishes, Airborne and Wingtech put in a lot of effort to get us some great new gliders, Billo helped us aerotow and get some hours on them. Some people provided sponsorship, others wished us well, thank you.
We will deliver Kiros car to the airport as he arrives back from Canada tomorrow. He had a rough time
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