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39th FAI Nationals GULGONG 17th Feb ‘01 Hi All, Sorry no news yesterday…yet again a retrieve & late home. Noteable performance of yesterday was by Pam Kurstjens from UK in her Open class Nimbus 4T glider, who showed the lads that it is not only males who can fly fast. Well done Pam.
Today, Day 5, was our best day so far, much to the relief and delight of everyone including the Gulgong Officials. Speeds in excess of 100kph occurred. A much more typical aussie day!! It is expected that we will get improving conditions for gliding in the next 3-4 days so expectations are up for high speeds and great conditions with few outlandings. Today was forecast to have Cu’s blueing out, with thermals 4-5 kts in strength to 4500ft above ground. This proved accurate early on, but the day improved with age and better thermals strengths were attained later in the day. Additionally, small Cumulus tops were visible plus the sea breeze remained subdued, so getting home from the 250 to 300 klm triangular tasks was much easier than previous days. Thermal strengths of 5kts were common with 7kts to be found. Plenty of good air with zero sink and streeting were also to be found. Few outlandings occurred and those few were the unlucky, who found the areas of heavy sink and could not escape before contacting ground. Ingo Renner again won in standard class at an average speed of 108 kph and looks to be cementing his position as outright leader in that class. Graham Parker won in 15M classat an average of 113.7 kph and looks to have a strangle hold in that class. Graham also won in 18m class followed by Bob Ward. John Buchanan won in Open class at an average of 124 kph. Both 18M and Open classes have several contenders vying for outright leadership. In the Trans-Tasman Challenge, New Zealander, Richard Downer leads by a small points margin from Australian Matt Anglim. Overheard in conversation was a comment about Richard. “he flies that LS4 Bl y well,..….even for a Kiwi!!” Matt has his work cut out to catch Richard but to Matt’s credit he is slowly closing the gap. Attachments for day 5 complete provisionals results. 15M d5.doc 18M d5.doc Open d5.doc Standard d5.doc Attachment for yesterday’s day 4 provisional results. Provisional_16_2.doc Attachment for Overall Provisional Points/place 15M_DAY5_TOT.xls OPEN_DAY5_TOT.xls. STD_DAY5_TOT.xls |
15m d5.doc