Wow I have just had the most fantastic week's flying in my life.
Alice and I flew every competition day and we succeeded in doing over 300km each day (I had never done a 300km flight before) - with no outlandings. On the last two days, we managed to fly over 100kph average speed. Much of this is due to Alice - she's an amazing aircraft to fly (particularly with 200kg of water on board) and by the end of the week I was starting to feel that I might just learn to fly her well enough to do her justice. At least I managed to fly well enough not to come last in club class - probably much to Alice's relief as I think a Nimbus 2c in last place in club class would feel acute shame! I learnt heaps listening and talking to the experts. Probably the most useful thing I was taught was to push up my speed in thermals, crank on the bank and pull back on the stick to get into the core. By the end of the week, I was getting the 7kts that the experts were talking about! I also made one glaring mistake - I still don't know how I managed it - but way out in the country I joined a gaggle of gliders, turning in the wrong direction. Fortunately, the only damage was my acute embarassment at making such a stupid mistake. There's an old saying in aviation about mistakes - "there's those that have and those that are going to" - and maybe by sharing my experience I can prevent some of you graduating from the latter to the former category on this one! The comp was superbly organised and run - with many Darling Downs club members (and their families) working really hard to make it so. To all of the workers, Alice and I both want to say thanks! -- Robert Hart [EMAIL PROTECTED] Strategic IT & open source consulting +61 (0)438 385 533 Brisbane, Australia http://www.interweft.com.au -- * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * with "unsubscribe aus-soaring" in the body of the message * or with "help" in the body of the message for more information.
