Phil Chett 1213049221|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
The first competition day - 9th june - was cancelled because of the bad weather conditions. All pilots were at the take off area - but unfortunately there was no chance to have a good task. But: tomorrow is a new day - and an new chance:-)
…the usual Austrian weather forecast, tomorrow is better, the day after should be very good! :)
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moyesboy2 1213192806|%e %b %Y, %H:%M %Z|agohover
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Not a brilliant start - team lies 7th, but all is not lost as we had 3 scorers in goal plus a 4th finisher. An off day for Rich and Carl with Bruce the best score followed by Graham and Shedsy.
The task was stopped due to a storm, early at 4.00pm, with the positions taken at 20 minutes before that. At that time there were 30 in goal - so it is a relief that we had 3 scoring pilots in and didn't lose out due to that cut off. Our two fastest pilots (on past history) not making it on the first day may just work in our favour as Rich and Carl now have it all to fly for!
First day was canned, second day flown and stopped due to a storm, and third day canned - so not a good weather pattern so far.
Gerolf leads. Who is prepared to beleive he can folloow that through? This is his best chance because he is not renown for recovering from a bad start!
This was a fast and fairly short task, average speed 48km/hr. Its difficult to outfly the locals on a task like this and Bruce was 20 minutes outside the best time of 2 hours 5 mins or so. The task was just long enough to score the 1000 pnts. Generally the Brits are at their best in longer, more difficult tasks. I'm also not sure how much free flying in area the weather has allowed in the days before the comp (Shedsy is the only team member to visit last year and he was late to arrive, due to fog descending on the oil rig!).
