Diggers Rest Thermal #3

6 November 2016

                                Dan             Jim                                       Don                Bob   Gerry(kneeling)                  Tom

Weather conditions in the early morning were a little bit discouraging for a day out flying but things changed nicely as the day progressed. We went from warm jackets to combat the chilling breeze to wearing tee-shirts by the end of the day.

In similar fashion the conditions varied widely. Tough conditions to begin with, progressing to thermals everywhere in the middle and then changing completely for the last round where thermals were incredibly weak, if you could find them at all.

But it was a very enjoyable day and those who thought about coming, and didn't, really missed out.

Bob Wilson sat out for the morning flying and helped with timing and calling. Eventually the wind abated and Bob flew in the last five rounds.

Apart from a few line breaks (actually quite a few) and some long distance retrieval of parachutes, there weren't any incidents at all.

At the lunch break, after three rounds, Don Woodward had a narrow lead over the rest, but really, it was anybodies contest to win from there. In fact all pilots had bad scores in those first three rounds and in the end, it was those scores together with the Round 8 scores that decided the final rankings.

Congratulations to the winner (and leader from round 5 to the finish)

1. Jim Houdalakis 7724.90
2. Tom Dupuche 7702.14
3. Daniel Haskell 7685.39

overallresults.pdf     flightscores.pdf     landingresults.pdf

The next event is Horsham on 3 - 4 December. Not to be missed.