At Whitwarta on Saturday, it might have been barely 10�C. The wind chill factor reduced that by several more.
It was soarable but difficult. Catherine took the club Hornet on an 75K XC but missed out getting back by 5K because of the weather cycles. Where it was sunny, or under an active passing Cu, there was a tight thermal. But there was plenty of shadow and overdevelopement.
I had mounted a new tailskid on my Grunau, so took it for a testfly. The temperature of the 40kt slipstream, if I poked my face passed the windshield, would try to peel the skin off your face. Under Cu, in a weak thermal and light rain, it was pretty cool in the open cockpit anyway. With a theoretical L/D of 17, drifting downwind very far was not an option.
Later on, I introduced a couple of our young pilots to some high-G turns in the K21. Big deal - you say. These G's had a minus sign in front of them. Heidi loved it. Andrew reserved his judgement. At least it pushed some blood upwards and made us feel nice and warm.
C'mon summer - so we can complain about the heat and flies.
-- Leigh Bunting Colonel Light Gardens South Australia <Open Windows and let the bugs in>
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