Hi everyone

Well, that was two very tough days of flying at Diggers Rest. Most of the pictures shown below were taken on the Saturday (by Louise - thanks!) when the weather was better but it was pretty windy most of that day, averaging about 6 m/s by the end of the day. On the Sunday it was even windier (and a whole lot wetter as well) with the average speed

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Five flyers made the trip to Longwood for the 4th event of the F3K league. The weather was nice but quite breezy, with about 6m/s southerly wind blowing slightly downhill. Landouts became a problem for some pilots. Jon flew his Vortex 2 extremely well and was looking good in these conditions. Marcus and Hugh flew Snipes all day, David and Bernie flew XXlites. In the end Marcus held off Jon (who finished fast) for top spot, but it was very close.

1. Marcus Stent
2. Jon Day
3. Hugh Blackburn
4. Dave Milward
5. Bernie Sizer

f3k4_2015-overall_results-f3k.pdf

f3k4_2015-flight_scores_f3k.pdf

Greg (helper/timer), Dave (XXL), Jon (Vortex2), Bernie(Snipe), Marcus (Aerial), Brett (Snipe), Jamie (XXL), Louise (helper/timer, XXL), Jim (XXL)

It was very windy at 9AM, but as soon as we started at 10AM it dropped off a little and turned into a fabulous day. It was windy and difficult, but not too windy that the lift got chopped up too much and there weren't too many land outs. It was challenging, tricky, tough, but very enjoyable. There was even some massive lift and big sink (see some of the scores!!) around in the middle of the day to make it interesting.

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