Preliminary Scores

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Waiting ...

Scorer is working hard and crews are busy retrieving.

Poz and James Bridges hav ecome to help us celebrate at least our first flying day

We have finishers

Unfortunately I landed out 15km short - always land out early or close ...

333
933
FBN
GT
H20
OM
RC
Y11
Z99 completed

Everybody else is accounted for either by landing out or landing back.

More later

We have weather ...

Task:

3:00 hours - AAT

Stradishall (45km) sector to west
Earith (45km) sector to west
Great Ashfield

Min 180km, Max ~290km

My glider is on the grid and full of water - all I need
to do is have breakfast.

Cheers

Friday 30th

Scrubbed again.

Thursday 29th - Scrubbed

After holding out long enough for me to wash my trailer - Don saw the light and has scrubbed.

Next briefing Friday 30th - 10:00

Grid squatting

The high cover from the front to the South East is cutting heating - the sniffer has landed back.

Thursday 29th

Briefing 10:00
Grid Before briefing if possible
Grid closes at 10:30

Unfortunately there is threat of storms from 14:00 local so Don has had to fall back from the 500km task to

Task A: 123km
Great Ashfield
Newmarket
Diss

Task B: 81km
East Dereham
Garboldisham
Diss

I must go and grid now

Tonight was a competition night ...

The great Donut Eating Comp ...

Training to beat the world record - 6 donuts in 3minutes - without licking your lips

Task was: 1 donut as fast as possible - no licking

First - Ian Mountain - 33 seconds



2nd Steve Langford - 40 secs



3rd - Tim Davies 43s (licked)
4th - Angus Watson - 49s
5th - Kevin Atikinson - 54s
6th - Gwyn Thomas - 1:04 (licked)


7th Ian Campbell - 1:10
8th James Dean - 1:13 (licked)

9th & Highest Placed Female - Christine Davies - 2:17




10th - Steve the Barman - 2:48 (licked and nearly chucked)
11th - Jenny Novak - 3:03
DNC - Miriam Watson (supplied donuts & scoring)
DNC - Mike Bean
DNC - Bob "hoootsman" Grieve
DNC - Chris Lawrence - he will never finish all that before the comp starts ...

Wednesday - Scrubbed

But it hasn't rained here - a small mercy.

The grid squat continues ...

We are now on Task B.

Task C has been prepared - rumors are that it is Great Ashfield - Scoulton for 82km

Wednesday 28th

Task A - 166km

Lavenham
Swanton Morley
Diss

Tssk B - 117km

Great Ashfield
East Dereham
Diss

Some people are on the grid.

Briefing at 10:00

Don is confident that we will have a briefing today ...

Water problems

After discovering water dump issues on Saturday I discovered that RC had the necessary tool kit to extract the dump valve from my wing ...



F1 pilot and F1 7 RC crew assisted and then invited me back to help them dispose of some other liquid.







If you are short of a crew get Steve Langford along - as long as he brings his home brew ...

Scrubbed ...

I have gone to work - what fun.

At least it is warm and dry and the tea & coffee are free.

Briefing delayed until 12:00

A reminder of how it looked on Saturday ...

Monday 26th - Scrubbed

Scrubbed without briefing

Thanks to Kieth Sowter who took lots of pictures on the grid on Saturday - see them here

Monday 26th

Typical Bank Holiday weather - briefing at 12:00

Don is having weather hallucinations and is hoping that everything he sees on RASP is true ...

750km set

All pilots round at just over 100kph

Bored as ...

a plane spotter.

Some of the custom G-Regs on the grid

Sunday 25th - Scrubbed

Weather is pretty poor.

933's crew is probably glad after last nights curry ...



... it was a bit much for him - but he did manage to go clubbing 'til 3am.

RC and F1 came to briefing muttering something like "we came prepared"

Sunday AM

The BBC aren't very optimistic ...