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Looks like no one made goal. Many seemed to have landed at the second turnpoint before the 35 km leg east into goal against the forecasted east wind (although the winds seemed to be predominantly south). All three task members agreed on the task right away so that was a foreshadowing of the fact that they wouldn't make it.

We actually changed the task a bit making it easier when the safety committee objected to the landing fields near the original goal at Garza.

There were high clouds from the beginning of the day which made us distrust the generally positive soaring forecast as we know that the models have trouble making accurate prediction when there are mid level and higher clouds. Also the higher clouds got thick and shaded the launch about half an hour into it.

Still there were cu's under the thick higher clouds and over the vast area of shaded ground and pilots were able to climb to cloud base. The launches were a bit slower due to the fact that many pilots were waiting until 2,000' AGL to get off.

There have been reports of cloud flying, which is cheating. We will be looking into those reports and assessing some penalties if they are true.

Yesterday I had Bobby Bailey tow me up for a little flight. It was great to be behind Bobby again and he hit a thermal right away. He put it up in a bank and we did a twirl to 1,000' before I pinned off. Sure is great to have the tug pilot define the thermal for you.

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