The results are here: http://www.soaringspot.com/2008dba/.

I was off to Toowoomba for an MRI scan on my knee, but the sky looked great all day. The task started earlier with the start window opening at 1 PM. The task was a 124 km dogleg to the northwest and then to the west. Fortunately the winds cooperated and appeared to have been between 86 and 109 degrees, with more easterly winds on the westerly leg and more east south easterly winds on the northwest leg. Very convenient.

Dave Seib won the day but he did it with his lowest save ever, he says. His track log shows him down to 270' AGL with a 19 mph wind out of the east. That must have been exciting. It took him over five minutes to get out of that circumstance.

Cameron Tunbridge is leading the competition and came in second today. Eight pilots made goal. All of Leroy's students went cross country.

The sky was full of cu's all day. Cloud base was over seven thousand feet. It's pretty much all flat here sloping down to the west (the Darling Downs, this is). It's easy to land around here as there are so many cultivated fields and lots of roads in all sorts of directions.

The town is busy with all the motels full of workers, working on a new power plant and an ethanol plant. The Australian economy is going full steam a head and the bankers are trying to cool it down with 7.5% interest rates.