The Dragonfly's do some fly-bys to bid farewell on the last day of flying, they then all get to taking us to our our next great ride. Forecast is for , much the same as yesterday but less isolated rain and storms later in the day. They call the launch open for Open and A Class early. They all get up and have to wait around for a while. By the time the Sport and Club Class get to towing at just after 1 it looks in danger of OD'ing pretty quick. Brendan tows me up after I ask him to give me a little more speed on tow. I get a pretty rough tow but end up in 4-500 up for a deserving reward for the beating I got.. kicked like a mule. (Brendan later told me he also felt he was copping a hiding and kept looking back to make sure I was still with him, he was happy to see I was.
I move off from base on course (again to Grenfell Race Track and the sky looks real good but I can see some vertical development in cloud close by, nothing to worry about. As I get about 25 K out I can see that a particularly big cell is starting to dump rain. Another right on course looks like it could burst out any time. The are both moving east to west and it looks like I would get in behind the first smaller cell and in front of the next one. AS I glide on I saw soome lightening and decided that I did not want to get any closer as the bigger cell to my right was building fast. If I beat it to goal I would still get hit by it. Anyway when still 20k away from the storm (25 from goal) I had decided to land as the clouds en-route look pretty strong too. When I went on a low glide for a good paddock closer to goal I started too hit long defined areas of good lift. If I encountered it any higher it seemed like 'oops I can't down down' type lift. I was happy enough to land in a nice paddock in smooth conditions. They stopped the task about 15 minutes later.
The comp ends. I win my Class (Sport Class = 3 dudes only two flying. ME + 1). I have had 7 flying days got to over 10g about 20 hours of airtime and flew a couple of hundred KM through the week. TEX OUT!
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