Billo writes:

The comp ran from the 25th of March to the 31st of March, and
although conditions this year were not epic, as they have been in past comps, we
got in rounds on six of the seven days. The Oz national team members Dave Seib
and Scott Barrett were able to get some more valuable aerotow flatlands practice
prior to Big Springs. Dave Seib won the comp, followed by Scott Barrett and
Grant Heaney was third.



A Trans Tasman challenge was run between teams of seven New Zealanders and seven
Ozzies. The Ozzies won comfortably, but the Kiwis put up a good showing and won
a day. Jon Durand Snr was doing well until he hurt his shoulder on landing at
Miles and didn't fly again during the comp. He was on the local Ozzie team, so
they finished the next three rounds a man down. It was good to see the Kiwis,
and we hope to see more of them here in the future.



There were four tugs this year, and we were getting the field off most days in
an hour or so. Dragonfly pilots were Dalby club tugmaster Bob (Smokey) Keen,
Dragonfly owner Bruce Carera and Canungra instructor Leroy Patterson. Billo flew
his Airborne trike. We had hundreds of launches during the comp period all
without incident.



Some of my photos from the week are posted as an html album at;



http://www.williamolive.com/nhgc/gallery/dalbybigair2007/index.html



Results: http://ozreport.com/2007dalby.php



Although it's run somewhat late in the Oz competition season the timing is
perfect for the area and I commend this comp to you. Dalby is a great place to
fly, hats off to the Dalby club for another well run event. I'm looking forward
to next year's comp already