Evgeniya Laritskaya writes:

The sky was overcast from the morning on, and the weather
forecast wasn’t optimistic at all. Still, pilots decided to go up and give it a
try. And they were so right to do so!

The task committee set a 51 km task around Mount Mitta Mitta, a little mountain
range up to 950 meters high. Right on the east side of this range there is the
Murray river, dividing the Australian states of Victoria and New South Wales.

The only problem was the overcast, but now and then the blue sky holes were
coming and going, providing rare thermals. That made the task challenging and
requiring luck. Flying from sunny spot to sunny spot, hanging in zero sink when
there was no sun, almost landing, and then happily finding something which would
let a pilot “survive” until the next sunny cycle.

Konstantin wasn’t lucky and landed after struggling for almost half the
distance. Aleksey had the opposite experience. He had a really fast run to the
goal. We are very happy for him. Andrey almost landed after the first turnpoint,
spent forever trying to get back up and was finally rewarded by getting enough
sun to get to the goal, too.

Rob de Groot was first in goal today.

Results:
http://wow.asn.au/comps/?q=node/100

Task 2:

Task 3:

Cumulative: