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New Castle, VA Region 4 South Day 4 of 6 Report
Today started with the usual cannon blast, amidst excellent omelets
served at the towplane tavern, followed by the winners speech from yesterdays flight. Tim Welles W3 won the 18M and Evan Ludeman won the combined 15M class. Alot of pilots were talking about Evan Ludeman's flight in his ASW-20, which is the second lowest performing glider at the contest. Evan's non-handicapped speed beat everyone in 18M and all but one in the FAI class. His main strategy was him betting on a slightly slower inter thermal speed to reduce his percent circling, which he said paid off dividends with a 61.46 mph speed around the course. Today's forecast was a promising forecast which came true too late in the day as unforecasted cirrus clouds moved in overhead. The 18M class was launched and struggled with low cloudbases. Paul Cordell decided to hold the launch of the FAI class with the cloudbases of just below 3500 AGL with broken, slow thermals. Since the landable fields in this region are spaced out a little more, a higher cloudbase is necessary for safety. Everyone waited patiently to see if things would improve in time for a suitable task, but the clock ran out and the day was cancelled. Many took tows anyways, some to only land back within 20 minutes, some scratched for a couple hours just locally and the legends managed to go fly the entire course! Despite the cancellation of the race, it was still great to hear the roar of the towplanes engines echo through the valley. Premier mexican food laid out on a 25 foot long buffet table hit a homerun for the nights dinner. And the bonfire live music was enjoyed by everyone. Friday and Saturday's forecast still optimistically shows flying both days with a fair chance of more racing. |
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New Castle, VA Region 4 South Day 4 of 6 Report
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, Scott Alexander wrote: Today started with the usual cannon blast, amidst excellent omelets served at the towplane tavern, followed by the winners speech from yesterday\ Thanks for the reports Scott. Wish we were there. Thanks to Frank for his reports as well. |
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