Evening update
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As it got closer to 6 PM, I was sitting closer to my radio to hear the pilots coming in. And they did.
What a wonderful feeling to see your pilot coming home! I just had to look around and see all these ladies and kids with smiling faces – he’s home and safe! – I think you can not truly imagine how it feels to have your loved one flying a race until it happens. Or just flying – he is up there, paying attention to a lot of factors and completely depending on his skills and the ones of his fellow pilots. You can not help. Just hope he will be back home safe. – And the pilots were smiling as well. What a nice day here in Hobbs!
We did have 2 landouts, both at airfields and safe.
The ranking for today looks like this: Open – Dick Butler, Ron Tabery and Al Tyler, just like yesterday – I am so proud of Al flying his 18 m with the big guys and doing a great job at it; 15 m – Rick Indrebo, John Seaborn and David Leonard – a little bit of a shuffle here; R9 Sports – Charlie Ryan, Randy Hollenberg and Louis McIntire. These are scores presented at this point, there still are some people that did not submit a log, so we will see if that changes anything.
The weather for tomorrow seems to be changing from what I have seen and maybe have another great day, but nothing is for sure, we will know more tomorrow.
Good night to all.
MD
Mid-day update
As waves of head were coming from the runway during the launch, I just had this feeling of how much sailplane racing resembles car racing. And as in car racing you can see the race, now we can to thanks to the new tracker that makes things so much exciting for us on the ground – http://www.ssa.org/sailplanetracker/default.asp?.
The launch was clean and safe, as our great crew has accustomed us and the gates opened quickly afterwards. Cu’s continue to show up and I hope our pilots are having a good time.
We are expecting them back starting 6 PM. More then. MD
Morning update
Good morning to all!
The winners are unchanged since last night for Day 2, just as announced in my previous post.
Today weather predicts good to excellent soaring, some cu’s, average lift 7.8 kts, light winds and 102 F.
The tasks are all TAT, with first launch announced at 1300.
15 m and Open share the same task, with a different start: 4 h min., Brownfield – Tatum – Wink – HgrmnCtff – Finish – 358.85 sm
R9 Sports: 3.5 h min., Levelland – RRxing – Eunice – Finish – 233.35 sm
Tomorrow’s weather is not going to be all that good, with some expected T-storm later in the day, stronger winds, so we shall see what the day will actually bring.
Do not forget to follow the tracker on the SSA website and watch the race live. have fun!
Cheers,
MD
