Evgeniya Laritskaya writes:

Clouds looked fantastic today, but one could see a strong wind
hidden in their shape. It was also gusting at the airport (sometimes up to 35
km/h), but on average the conditions were flyable and “taskable." Some pilots
were setting up their gliders in the laying down position. Some used the wind to
help them carrying their glider over the field.

Open class has got a task of 150 km to Dulacca, with one turnpoint at Brigalow -
almost straight line with the wind. Pilots reported both good racing conditions
and over clouding on the course line, patches of light rain, many low saves and
tough technical flying. Still eight pilots made goal and our Michael is among
them, fifth for the day, great job! Guy Hubbard was first in goal!

Sport task was cancelled before their launch was open: the wind was turning more
and more from the hangar (which brings more turbulence, and was showing 27 km/h
on average and gusting up to 36 km/h. It was more than the safety committee
declared safe for the king posted guys, so the task was cancelled and most of
the sport pilots derigged their gliders right away. Some still flew.

Michael landed at some really nice field which turned out to be located next to
a private road with the gate one kilometer away from his landing. We didn’t want
to drive there without owner’s permission, so it took us half an hour to find a
neighbor (Matt) who was able (after quite a few calls) to find a phone number of
the owner of our field and to call him on our behalf. Only then we and Matt
drove together through that gate and picked up Michael there. Big thanks to
Matt.