Today is the first official practice day. They set a racing task of 579km for 15m, a 4 hour AAT for 18m and a four and a half hour AAT for Open. The forecast was for 36C with climbs to 6000′ above ground early and 8000′ later.
All of our pilots are booked in for Scrutineering today – 4 down 2 to go. So far so good.

Bruce and Brad are the only ones choosing to fly today and plan to land back early for their Scrutineering appointment at 5pm. Once that is done we can start with our normal routine tomorrow.
We are now installed in our team room which is right next to the briefing room. It is a great room with everything we need.

Today there is a major effort to erect the radio aerial on the roof. It is proving more difficult than we thought, but should be finished and ready for tomorrow.
All but a couple of crew are here now and we had our first team meeting this morning in our new base.

Tonight we are all going to Taylors just across the road for a BBQ by Vicki.