Summary Day 7
But first a quick summary of what its like to race at the Club Class Comps
A short Video of Day 5
ay developed a bit faster than forecast, with a handful of pilots staring at the sky and saying we should start at 12 noon. (this at 11:45) instead of 1pm.  Never the less first launches started at 12:50 ish, in to a lovely looking sky.

Some surprise then that an LS4 landed out at Pureora Turnpoint airstrip. An aero retreive was asked for.
Nearly an hour later a Pawnee headed off from doing a local tow.  Unfortunately the tow rope hooked the fence at the strip resulting in a heavy landing with a 'horn"' breaking on the undercarriage leg. This horn holds the shock absorbing bungees in place, so the Pawnee was unflyable.   The LS4 was then road retrieved.

A good news storey being that while waiting the two pilots(LS4 & Pawnee,) were

This morning a replacement 'structure'is being retrieved by Tecnam courier from Hamilton and should be fitted later this morning to allow the pawnee to 'self retrieve.

At around this time the Club Class leader (GGX) was dumped in to a paddock and incurred some damage to his main wheel. The retrieve team arrived back at 9:50pm.

Retrieve Crew for GX were rewarded with onsite restroom.

Today is looking not as good as yesterday with a high covering the contest area.
Task setters have a challenge with the current weather forecast so
Task A will be a 2.5 hour AAT to the NE, then across to the NW (Wharepapa South), then South and back via Mokai.  ion
A Task B in case all the weather information turns out completely different.

Hard to believe-but Lindsay at breakfast this morning playing with his electronic gadgets.