Day Five Fun Fun

The day started with the Contest Director doing an imitation of Farmer Jones driving a tractor. The Grid on 09 needed mowing so that confused pilots knew where to park there gliders in preperation for launch.

The weekend task team of Gee and Ben have broken an unofficial New Zealand Contest Record. Today Open/18 metre and Standard/15metre ar eon Task D-yep Delta. The fourth task of the day. Omarama-Nevis Mine-Omarama

After initially denying the use of the newly negotiated Cromwell Sector Queenstown Tower nice lady rang to say she was now on duty and the Sector would be available after lunch. Hooorah! It WILL be used.

After waiting for cloud cover to dissapate and then waiting for the thermic activity to get above 50 feet per minute the Club Class were launched in to a very bluish looking sky with only a couple of white puffies. Three of them landed back in various states of grmpiness/resolve.

Gliders have an ability to get a competition "relite" from strips within 15kms-today ZN took that option. The Landowner when called was very helpful and gave us instant approval for the relaunch. Thank you Dan Thomas.

A few more SPOTS are appearing day by day which makes the Contest Organisations task SOOOOOO much easier. Remember that the spots show on http://map.xinqu.net/spot.html
Phil has a small programing problem with the show tracks-I am sure it will be fixed soon.

Gliders are starting to arrive home now 5:55pm

Grae is now back at Omarama looking healthy and advising that he just needs a checkup when he gets back to Wellington