An interesting start to the day. A film crew arrived from the Discovery channel with Ritchie McCaw (current Air NZ CRoss Country Trophy holder) to spend a day filming at the competition.
The story is an aviation gliding story about Ritchie introducing an Australian League star to the sport of gliding. Not sure when it will hit your screens.
Also this morning we had 7 pilots sign a protest about the allocation of 150 penalty points for alleged airspace infringements. They maintain it should have been total los of points. The protest committee will meet at 8am in the morning to consider the protest.
WE have been unable to repeat yesterdays performance with Queenstown tower to get access to some extra airspace so the task has been reset to handle that situation.
Todays tasks are Open/18 metre Omarama, Cromwell, Alexandra, Two Thumbs, HakaN, Clearburn back to Omarama
Standard/15metre starts Omarma, Cromwell, ALexandra, Mt Hayes, HakaN, Clearburn and back to Omarama
Club Class go from Omarama to Thomsons, Glentanner and home for 248kms.
These tasks are officially AAT but with the special Omarama derivation. That is that each turn point has a 5km radius and the task time is one hour. This is then effectively a racing task but with "fuzzy" turnpoints to help pilots negotiate turnpoints that might be under wavebars.
Todays launch should go much more smoothly as we now have our full complement of towplanes with Southern Soarings Pawnee back from the aeroplane doctors are a small amount of surgery on the exhaust system.
It approaching 1pm and I am off to the grid to oversea the launch
More later.
LEX
My right hand and Scorer
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