F3J - Thermal duration Open Thermal #5 Digger's Rest 8/02/2015
Open Thermal #5 Digger's Rest 8/02/2015
Despite the not so great forecast we had a brilliant days rcga open thermal competition at Digger’s Rest.
Blue skies greeted us upon arrival, but soon turned overcast, I would say the wind ranged from light to medium, with the really windy forecast stuff not hitting us til we were packing up end of day. Before lunch the lift was fairly light and in the right spot, turnable. One thing that surprised me was how low the cloud was for this time of year with the hills in the distance looking foggy and I know David H managed to find cloud base on one of his morning flights.
We had 9 starters for the day, not bad for a rescheduled event, and it was great to welcome back Andrew Fenech after a break of I don’t know how many years, but from when it was still 7 in 9 minutes.
Anyway after lunch it was blue skies again, and thermals a-plenty, and we managed to finish 7 rounds.
Congratulations go to:
1st David Hobby
2nd Tom Dupuche
3rd Rod Watkins
RCGA Open Thermal #5 overall results.pdf
RCGA Open Thermal #5 Flight Scores pdf
RCGA Open Thermal #5 Landing Scores pdf
Thanks to everyone who lent me a hand to setup, run the heats and enter scores, and I'll see you in a couple of weeks in Ballarat for the next Open Thermal round.
-Jim
We have now flown 5 comps so it is time to start publishing the RCGA Thermal League progressive results.
Only one person has flown all five so he has a comfortable lead, but this won't last long! Here are the first 5 placings.
Open the .pdf file to see the full results.