NSW State Gliding Comps Day 2 - first competition day

After looking at the temp trace and various forecasts, the first competition day, Monday, looked to be similar to Sunday but the morning improved.  Gridding commenced immediately after a delayed briefing and first launch was 12.30pm following reports of Cu on track from Nick Singer who was up as a sniffer.   The AAT was Mullaley, Narrabri, Split Rock for all classes with distances from 112km to 456km.  There were 3 outlandings;  the day and the task worked and it's amazing the difference that 5 tugs make.

Apres gliding at Lake Keepit

NSW State Gliding Comps Sunday 28 Nov 10

Practice day on Sat was a practice for all concerned - pilots and organisers alike.  A short task - Mullaley - Castletop - Split Rock - with task distances from 138km to 282km for all classes.  Sat was the last day of the good band of weather enjoyed at Narromine Cup last week, which resulted in some good times by Bruce Taylor (122kph), Tom Claffey (120kph), Dion Weston (111kph), Matt Gage (99kph) and Dave Shorter (94kph).

Comp Day 1 - Sunday - was cancelled.  The area forecast and temp trace flights indicated a too small window of opportunity to set a meaningful task and subsequent local flying proved this to be the case.

THURSDAY 04 NOVEMBER

Lochlainn Benyon  from Kewarra Beach enjoyed a great flight in our beautiful Duo Discus - ZAB. Being

9 yrs old, Lochy has only got 6 yrs to wait before going solo !!

A mixed bag at LKSC both weather  and nationality wise.

Whilst most of our members and guests in this photo are now Australian citizens, countries of origin are Wales, Switzerland ,Slovakia, Czech Republic, England, China, Germany and the odd Aussie.

During the week Andy Sampson from the London Gliding Club flew a couple of 300's and gave a very interesting talk on flying from Dunstable - air space there is a tad different to YKEP and the boys from Newcastle gave our new tuggie a tour of the LK nightspots