14.30 p.m.

Murphy’s law – the weather rapidly developed so the task was amended to the following prior to launching:

Open/18m.

Task C:  382.9 km. Bothaville – Kingswood – Kroonstad – Control S

Club:

Task C:  3 hr. AAT 178.8 km/358.6 km. Kroonstad (25km. radius) – Senekal a/f (30 km. radius) – Control S

Launching commenced at approx. noon, and some of the Club class were quick off the mark once the gate was opened.  Others obviously struggled to get to a decent height before starting, and three have already abandoned the task for the day.  There have also been small showers of rain over the airfield.

John Coutts pulled his glider up the runway to grid and ended up with a puncture, so he had to do running repairs before he could launch quite some time after the rest of the field.