whaaat day3 and no rain
BP not slept well, so let her snotter on, took the covers off and moved to the grid which is the same as yesterday. As clever clogs crew prdicts BP is on row D. 3rd tug wave.
Task is an AAT
Lei Leighton Buzzard NE
Gra Grafham Water 31° 46.2 km
Oln Olney 241° 32.3 km
Ban Banbury 259° 42.7 km
Sto Stony Stratford 91° 30.3 km
Dun Dunstable Airfield 135° 30.7 km
Total: 177.81 km / 512.77 km (182.59 km)
Distances are min to max, the figure in brackets is what you get going to all the points. The first area stops just short of Kings Lynn in the east and west of Hereford. Time is 4 hours BP is aiming for 320km to 350km.
Crew busies himself with rat(atouille) for supper.
BP returns from briefing in a bit of a mood as she is slooow at planning AATs and first launch was called for 11.00. Still she is in the middle of the grid so loads of time...
Actual first launch at 1130 BP trundles off by 1255
The startline opens at 1236 max height 3800 QFE. Any higher and there is a risk from Luton airspace.
Not sure if BP is on the start frequency as it has hopped about, we shall see.
Some have started but BP is too high and the wrong side of the line.
I do wish she would stop messing around, I have to go shopping, principally ato take advantage of the aircon. It is officially well pigging hot.
Well she was on the correct frequency and she started 1330, she then does a sneaky restart 15 mins later, whilst all the tracking had gone down and Crew had switched the radio off.
Crew washes some Brave (but a touch rancid) Pilots' clothes, then off to Dunstable, which has even larger people than DGC with waay too many tats.
Purchase cling film and soap - living the dream man.
Return to find she is heading west having turned probably level with Eley. Onglide is having a binny but Spot the gliders is doing ok for once. she has been flying for 1:50 of a 4 hour task, so she is either feeling hard and will go deep into the west sector or there will be a headwind to contend with. Plan A was to just clip the west but who knows now.
Endless chuntering on 130.4
Now passed Olney TP and the thick end of 5k feet, 2hrs 06 run. Banbury is looking difficult, with one landout and some below 3k.
Now 1640 she must be feeling brave as she is at 3500' and still hasnt turned, 3/4 hour remaining 75km home, so she will be late.
I think she has saved the Std Jantar who came under her at 1800' as she left with Mike Fox at 4200' still going west - mad cow.
Another landout the H301 (flapped) Libelle just in sector by Banbury.
Bit of a bog on the timings as she still has 60km to run, we shall see.
Eventually she wanders in last of the finishers, but she did go to end of sector in the East just a few km from the Wash, then it slowed from 100kph and everything went to rats, but she got home.
Provisionally 21 but that will change but she still beat Liz Sparrow and Ayala -bit of a pundit.
All my gloom was predicated on her starting 15mins earlier, and not imagining, in the absence of tracking, that she had gone as far as possible in the first sector, and a sporting distance in the second. Even the winner only went 15km further.
Supper shower n bed.
Crew out
Task is an AAT
Lei Leighton Buzzard NE
Gra Grafham Water 31° 46.2 km
Oln Olney 241° 32.3 km
Ban Banbury 259° 42.7 km
Sto Stony Stratford 91° 30.3 km
Dun Dunstable Airfield 135° 30.7 km
Total: 177.81 km / 512.77 km (182.59 km)
Distances are min to max, the figure in brackets is what you get going to all the points. The first area stops just short of Kings Lynn in the east and west of Hereford. Time is 4 hours BP is aiming for 320km to 350km.
Crew busies himself with rat(atouille) for supper.
BP returns from briefing in a bit of a mood as she is slooow at planning AATs and first launch was called for 11.00. Still she is in the middle of the grid so loads of time...
Actual first launch at 1130 BP trundles off by 1255
The startline opens at 1236 max height 3800 QFE. Any higher and there is a risk from Luton airspace.
Not sure if BP is on the start frequency as it has hopped about, we shall see.
Some have started but BP is too high and the wrong side of the line.
I do wish she would stop messing around, I have to go shopping, principally ato take advantage of the aircon. It is officially well pigging hot.
Well she was on the correct frequency and she started 1330, she then does a sneaky restart 15 mins later, whilst all the tracking had gone down and Crew had switched the radio off.
Crew washes some Brave (but a touch rancid) Pilots' clothes, then off to Dunstable, which has even larger people than DGC with waay too many tats.
Purchase cling film and soap - living the dream man.
Return to find she is heading west having turned probably level with Eley. Onglide is having a binny but Spot the gliders is doing ok for once. she has been flying for 1:50 of a 4 hour task, so she is either feeling hard and will go deep into the west sector or there will be a headwind to contend with. Plan A was to just clip the west but who knows now.
Endless chuntering on 130.4
Now passed Olney TP and the thick end of 5k feet, 2hrs 06 run. Banbury is looking difficult, with one landout and some below 3k.
Now 1640 she must be feeling brave as she is at 3500' and still hasnt turned, 3/4 hour remaining 75km home, so she will be late.
I think she has saved the Std Jantar who came under her at 1800' as she left with Mike Fox at 4200' still going west - mad cow.
Another landout the H301 (flapped) Libelle just in sector by Banbury.
Bit of a bog on the timings as she still has 60km to run, we shall see.
Eventually she wanders in last of the finishers, but she did go to end of sector in the East just a few km from the Wash, then it slowed from 100kph and everything went to rats, but she got home.
Provisionally 21 but that will change but she still beat Liz Sparrow and Ayala -bit of a pundit.
All my gloom was predicated on her starting 15mins earlier, and not imagining, in the absence of tracking, that she had gone as far as possible in the first sector, and a sporting distance in the second. Even the winner only went 15km further.
Supper shower n bed.
Crew out
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