back on deck

Photo's above are Tim then his Dad Keith Howells, these guys, in fact all the club class were flying and towing well - DUSTY!

Sorry missed a couple of days due to getting tied up a little with the accident that happened here on the first day and unfortuntely our friend Steve "Missy' Elliot did not survive his accident. He basically did not get out of the cart straight or at all before things went wrong. I will let the accident investigation to sort out whatever facts that can be determined.

I did manage to make goal on the the second task for the Sport Class we are setting tasks that are the same for the Sport and Club Classes, it is a bit ridiculous that the Sport Class only has 3 gliders and one of them is a topless glider. Validity and such is all screwed up because the field is so small- 250 pts for making goal... Meanwhile the Club class has a decent field, in fact if I were in there I would be getting spanked at the moment due to missing a day and then yesterday I got dumped off tow downwind from the air field and could not make a glide back in the 12-15kt winds, I committed to go, as I had to, and hit the deck just up the road. The top Club Class Pilot has made the goal every day in his Sting... good to see. Yesterday was an 82km task and today we will use the same goal with a different turn point to make it right on 80km to the west of the forbes airport at Cudal.

Anyway have to shoot off for an interview with the Police, hard to keep the head space right under these circumstances.

OH! also the internet access we have at the HQ is pathetic you can not upload photo's and quite often it is down. I have to regularly try and publish these posts numerous times so it is a real pain, looks like I might start hitting the WiFi at McD's instead