The flex wing preliminary results (there are half a dozen or more screwed up track log files).

The rigid wing results (similar problems here).

At 2:30 pm (mountain standard time) a bunch of us were at the edge of the start circle and as high as we had been for the last hour so off we went racing toward the first turnpoint to the east, the first turnpoint on our 64 mile triangle task. We called this task at the last minute as it looked like the winds weren't that high (they were forecasted to be 11 - 14 mph) and we want to come back on every day that we can.

Dustin was off to the north, my left, and I couldn't see him. Jeff O'Brien and Shapiro turned around hoping to get higher for the next start time. There were a few pilots near me but they were all lower as we raced out toward the tiny airport at Sarito.

I was soon on my own and having to work light lift as I got low. This was not good, being out in front and there was target on my back that would get real big real soon. Sure enough a bunch of pilots (maybe some from the first start time, but likely many from the second) showed up at Sarito and were high over me as I finally found some good lift (which they also found).

The wind was 10 mph out of the west as I headed south towards the Eds turnpoint 18 miles away. The lift was now much better, which was a good thing because it was tough going against the cross wind. Pilots were dropping out but I found strong lift. The Jeff's dropped out along the way.

I found a strong one and got to 8,000' without having to think about it. Unfortunately, there was plenty of sink at the second turnpoint behind the rice paddies and I didn't go into search mode before I got there. Down to a thousand feet coming back all I found was zero sink and finally that wasn't enough to get me out of there.

Dustin got to goal early (but he'll have to re download his tracklog) but Nene was right behind him gaining almost fifteen minutes on him. Leo Dabbur started when I did at the first start time, but had the second fastest time and got a few extra arrival points.

I think all the rigid wing pilots made it back. There was a ten mph head wind on the last 24 mile leg, but that didn't bother them or those flex wing pilots that made it in faster than the rigid wings.

Jamie Shelden is doing the downloads and I'm doing the scoring. We downloaded all the waypoints with GPSDump and that worked quite well. We are downloading all the tracklogs with GPSDump also and there have been a few problems with bad tracklogs which Jamie will need to work out tomorrow. I'm scoring with my OzGAP 2005 script in SeeYou.