Evgeniya Laritskaya writes:

Dalby Big Air, day 4. An even harder day than yesterday. It
started with a pretty strong inversion, so pilots were playing “launch potatoes”
and waiting for the weather to improve for quite some time. Open class had a 106
km long Big Dipper shaped task with five turnpoints; sport class had a 51
kilometer straight line task; both tasks to the north-west.

“Kingposted” pilots reported flying over a blue hole area with the thermals all
broken between 2300 and 2500 meters. “Topless” pilots reported their furthest
leg being under a shaded area with very light thermals and they all experienced
cross winds. All this together allowed only five open class pilots to make goal,
and the first one was Craig Taylor on his RX3.5. Sport goal was again made by
Andrey and Hugh on Geckos, and Andrey was only five minutes faster. Andrey, Hugh
and Alastair (currently scored third) are flying together for the last couple
days and enjoying it very much.

Special mentions for Peter Garrone who after storming the course with an earlier
start landed just 550m short of the goal radius! Keep it up Peter.

Huge thanks to Michael Zupanc for taking me up in the trike, so I could take a
few aerial photos of our “launch potatoes."

Michael Karmazin was testing a new instrument prototype, which measures
electricity in the air to spot thermals better.