Central Plateau Soaring Competition 2015

Taupo, New Zealand,   31 October 2015 – 7 November 2015

Champions

Club
1 GOB Mark Tingey 2,997
2 GTD Tony van Dyk 2,946
3 GTX David Hirst 2,744

No flying for the past few days

We've had bad weather the past few days.

Tuesday wasn't good,

Wednesday was rained out.

Thursday was very strong SE winds which makes launching here a bit treacherous. The wind wraps around Tehara and ends up very turbulent over the airfield. Tasking would have been very difficult, so we played golf instead.

Today and tomorrow look very blue! So not sure how much fun it's gonig to be yet...

In other news, a FLARM ground reciever has been set up, so you can track gliders live at http://live.glidernet.org/. Launches between 12:30-1 usually.

You can see the range of the tracking system here: http://ognrange.onglide.com/#TaupoGC,max,all,-38.258476_176.098594,9,#00990000:#009900ff,circles;
At this stage it's only within visual range of the airfields.

Written on 5 November 2015 at 19:20.

Latest winner

1. Mark Tingey 76.92 km/h
2. David Hirst 69.14 km/h
3. Tony van Dyk 62.52 km/h
Updated: 17/11/2015, 08:12

Latest task

Task 4, 7 Nov 2015
Task distance: 75.49 km  /  210.14 km  (136.82 km)
Task duration: 2:00:00
Updated: 07/11/2015, 10:28