Flying Day 3, Thursday 11/24 (Thanksgiving)

The weather here changes so fast. Last night it was really windy and the morning was cold and blowing. But, by the 10 am pilots meeting it had died down and was looking like a pretty good day. We set a 410 km chevron shaped task with the first turn at Westpoint (where we clear the airspace around Bloemfontein),  then 123 km  down to a turnpoint called Luckoff, then north to a point just above the town of Dealsville then back.  The first part of the task went well until I got to Petrusberg at which point I hit a huge blue hole across which was a big white wall (rainstorms). I diverted back north past Dealsville and came back before the rain hit the airport. I flew about 250km in a little over 2.5 hours.

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