The forecast was for again east southeast winds at 8 mph. Good
lift, but the chance of thunderstorms late in the day.

With the chance of thunderstorm activity the task committee calls at earlier
launch at 12:30 PM. But the question was will it be soarable at 12:30? There was
a layer of high cloud above that the models don't take into account so the
heating started up late as those clouds went away.

I have seen this happen before where the desire to get an earlier start because
of possibly late deterioration gets us going when the conditions aren't really
ready. Larry Bunner, mentor, and head of the task committee, launched first and
Greg Dinauer, another mentor ,was lined up right behind him but had to get out
of line because of a flat on the cart. He was placed back in the sixth spot.

Larry landed out (amazingly upwind). Greg was waved off early but in very very
light lift and had to work hard to stay up as numerous pilots didn't and landed
back at the field. The wind was 9 or 10 mph out of the east.

I relaxed the whole time because it sure didn't look good to me and didn't
launch until we got through all the first flights of the all the pilots and the
line was filling up with reflights. Larry was soon back at launch.

Lift was still weak when I went up but got off early and climbed up. Went to a
vertical cu to the southwest and got up again from low. Now there was good lift
over the field and I could see pilots getting up. I went over a joined them.

The start was open, whenever you leave the five kilometer start cylinder, your
time starts. Given that it seemed to get better as the day progressed, I hung
around in the start cylinder trying to find my team and could only raise Mick on
the radio. My team was near the last team to launch.

Finally headed out with a few pilots and there were plenty of nice cu's along
the course line to the northwest, more cu's to the south of the course line.

It was three thermals to the goal field progressively stronger going from 200
fpm to 500 fpm. I could see pilots working lift all about me. It looked like
they would be able to make the goal.

Results (so far):
http://soaringspot.com/gss2015/results/club/daily/day2.html

Live tracking, replay, notes and pictures from the day:
https://airtribune.com/2015-green-swamp-sport-klassic/blog__day_2

It turned out to be a spectacular day and the task was too short, but after
yesterday it was good to have a bunch of pilots in goal. Larry made it to goal
and then headed back to Quest Air upwind. He got within a mile of Quest.

Live tracking with Airtribune seems to be working and we found a couple of
pilots who were lost due to instrument failure because of their tracks.

Looks like a lot of pilots are having a good time.

There was plenty of thunder and rain to our west along the coast and some to our
east later in the day.