Daniel Vélez <> writes:

The 5th day looked like the best day so far. From 6:00 am a nice shinny sun was heating up the ground and our hopes. Every one started the run on the cars to the take off place. My car was second on the way up, so we decided to start the competition on the way up.

We made four barricades on the dirt road up to the hill, to slow down the other pilots that were on their way...

Sadly a big cirrus cloud came along on the worse moment so the valley floor couldn't heat up enough to keep the tail wind back and we needed to call the day.

Today is the last Day and the weather doesn't look that promising. We will see...

Yesterday the task people called a mountain task to the south but then they changed the task to a small 43 Km dogleg to the north over the valley.

I took the first start with the leading gaggle and Mike Glennon, but the valley was too cold so I went back for a late start. Finally only Mike and me made it around the course (I was like 32-33 minutes faster) but we called the day because of a local rule. We have two take off sites almost 1km apart and the local rule says that we must have at least one minute of take off wind conditions on each take off site for each pilot in order to validate the task.

Unfortunately yesterday we did not get not even three minutes of safe conditions on one of the take off sites so the task was invalidated.

Today we are all at the best but smallest take off site.

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