Monday Nite

Everyone is accounted for- a lot of happy pilots having had a great day out!

The saddest story is probably the glider getting an aero retrieve that released on the ground and kited into a fence. Pilot is fine and practicing a lot of swear words. Glider needs a few band aids.

Next saddest story is the Duo Discus crew who received a 1000 points for their effort only to loose 25 points for a turnpoint error, they missed by 163 metres. Enough to be pushed back in to second place. Any small mistake at this level of competition can be brutally punished.

Tenacity of the day store is Taupo based pilot in a DG100 who landed out twice!!

Stupidest pilot story is the Nortlander who totally ignored the landing protocol and landed on the wrong runway with 4 gliders in the circuit to land(on the correct runway). Will have to check his mental condition to answer the question "What was he thinking!!!

Check the scoring website for todays scores.

They should be out very shortly.

Fingers crossed for another stunning day tomorrow.

Keep it up

Roy.

PS. We have full speed internet back-seems Telecom didnt like all the glider pilots doing downloads and using lots of data. After an hour on the phone and a measly $10 we are back at full speed. Means I can do some paid work tonite :-)