http://soaringspot.com/qao2015/

http://ozreport.com/2015QuestAirOpen.php

https://airtribune.com/2015-quest-air-open-national-championships/blog__day_3

http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/para/flightinfo.html?flightId=1175118106

http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/para/getScoring.html?scoringId=319

http://www.paraglidingforum.com/leonardo/flight/1157266

http://wxc.fai.org/module.php?id=22&date=20150304&gliderclass=hg1

http://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:davisstraub/11.5.2015/17:07

http://www.xcontest.org/world/en/ranking-hg-open/

A short task on a day with over development likely to the north. A well thought
out task that kept us safe.

The task was a zig zag because there was a 10 to 20 mph southeast wind and the
task committee wanted to have the longest task possible without running into bad
weather to the north. Also makes for more interesting flying when you have to go
cross wind.

Often weak lift at the start cylinder which was just south of Quest Air. Larry
Bunner and I make the mistake, which costs us dearly, of taking the second
clock, after it looks like pilots were not all the interested in taking the
first one. It was just a case of pilots buzzing around without a definite
thermal core.

After the start I personally find weak lift and not very coherent cores, but
just keep going not getting that high but not falling down too quickly. After
the turnpoint at the Turnpike and not having been in any thermal past the start
cylinder that came close to averaging 300 fpm, I head for a small cu over the
forested area south of the prison complex.

In the middle there is a bit of a clearing and although I'm down to 2,000' it
seems to me that I can make a good landing to the west if I need it. I find some
weak lift and sample it a bit. I have to stay up and need to climb out from this
low so I hang with it. After three minutes it turns on to 700 fpm, my best
thermal of the day.

There are cu's pretty much all over the place, and after getting up to 5,500' I
head for the turnpoint with Larry nearby. We will fly together the whole way.

The center of the turnpoint is west of Lake Panasoffkee, but fortunately the
radius is 5 KM, so we make the turnpoint near Coleman and head north northwest
toward Wildwood. We find good lift again at Wildwood and head over the north end
of the villages. Over a water tower and under a small cu Larry joins me and we
climb up over 5,000' in 300 fpm.

We come in over Dustin and a couple of other pilots 5 KM from the edge of the
third turnpoint south of Lake Weir. We climb to 6,000' and head for the
turnpoint. Coming back west toward Lake Weir with the goal directly across it I
find 250 fpm and climb to 4,700'. Larry goes straight across the lake at 2,500'
seeing a convergence line in the water. He has to take 100 fpm on the northwest
side.

I go directly across the lake high and it is a glide from 15 kilometers to goal.

To the north it is shaded from the outflow of cu-nimbs. Leeward airfield was a
great place to stop. We had been told not to land at the private airstrip but a
local resident did welcome us. A bunch of us landed in a large field just to the
south which is used by the Ocala sewage treatment facility for spreading waste.

The first seven pilots into goal came in within 26 seconds of each other.