A no contest day today with the clearence coming too late for a task, but about half the feild flew and took advantage of some good wave. As met man I thought I had better fly as I had called a clearence and useable wave from 2pm local time. It was closer to 3pm but the wave was there and strong too - 8-10knts at times with 6knts average. It was one of those days when the sky east of the Manawatu gorge was clear and allowed me to fly south to Featherston and return, an olc distance of 452km at 174 kph. Rob Laskey from Fielding went to over 20,000ft and others to around 10,000.

Tomorrow we should have pleasent thermals again, hopefully a good day to round off the competition.

Cheers GW