2015 Race and Rally - day 2
The results:
http://soaringspot.com/2015frr/results/flex/daily/day2.html
1. |
Pedro Garcia |
Wills Wing T2C 144 |
36.1km/h |
137.0km |
1000 |
2. |
Oleg Bondarchuk |
Aeros Combat-12.7 C |
36.1km/h |
137.0km |
999.59 |
3. |
Jonny Durand |
Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 |
|
126.5km |
776.71 |
4. |
John Simon |
Aeros Combat L15 |
|
116.3km |
736.60 |
5. |
Dustin Martin |
Wills Wing T2C 144 |
|
116.3km |
736.50 |
6. |
Jonas Lobitz |
Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 |
|
115.6km |
732.46 |
7. |
Bruce Barmakian |
Wills Wing T2C 144 |
|
112.6km |
712.29 |
8. |
Larry Bunner |
Wills Wing T2C 144 |
|
112.6km |
712.28 |
9. |
Davis Straub |
Wills Wing T2C 144 |
|
109.7km |
689.40 |
10. |
Malcolm Brown |
Wills Wing T2C 144 |
|
105.9km |
655.26 |
Wills Wing T2C wins again. Eight days in a row.
Cumulative:
http://soaringspot.com/2015frr/results/flex/total/day2.html
1. |
Oleg Bondarchuk |
UKR |
Aeros Combat-12.7 C |
1881.14 |
2. |
Pedro Garcia |
ESP |
Wills Wing T2C 144 |
1869.71 |
3. |
Jonny Durand |
AUS |
Moyes Litespeed RX3.5 |
1655.23 |
4. |
Jonas Lobitz |
ROF |
Moyes Litespeed RS3.5 |
1519.11 |
5. |
Dustin Martin |
USA |
Wills Wing T2C 144 |
1511.99 |
6. |
Bruce Barmakian |
USA |
Wills Wing T2C 144 |
1481.04 |
7. |
Jeff Shapiro |
USA |
Wills Wing T2C 144 |
1474.05 |
8. |
Davis Straub |
USA |
Wills Wing T2C 144 |
1434.04 |
9. |
John Simon |
USA |
Aeros Combat L15 |
1433.77 |
10. |
Max Turiaco |
BRA |
Wills Wing T2C |
1432.51 |
Replay live tracking:
https://airtribune.com/play/610/2d
http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/para/flightinfo.html?flightId=1779581819
http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/para/getScoring.html?scoringId=319
http://www.paraglidingforum.com/leonardo/flight/1163567
http://wxc.fai.org/module.php?id=22&date=20150304&gliderclass=hg1
http://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:davisstraub/18.5.2015/16:45
http://www.xcontest.org/world/en/ranking-hg-open/
Quite an "interesting" day as we took off from Dunnellon. We flew to the north
northwest on a day with an east wind and a sea breeze with over development. I'm
doing the weather for the competition and everyone was aware of the fact that
there would be a push from the west and no lift late in the day (5 PM) west of
I75. Even the weather person on the radio told us this.
The nominal task would have been to Live Oak even further west. Larry Bunner
proposed Wellborn and I was thinking Lake City airfield south of Lake City. The
task committee chose Wellborn as the middle option. They want long tasks and
Lake City at 111 km wasn't long enough for them even though we would have had a
better chance of making it.
It was all blue over Dunnellon before launch opened, but within half an hour of
launch the sky filled up with cu's and invited us all up. It was easy climbing
away from the field to the north and then staying near cloud base until the
first start gate. There were plenty of cu's in all directions and we were 3
kilometers upwind of the course line. There was a 5 mph headwind component which
we didn't seem to mind.
Missed a climb 20 km out and had to dig my way out from 1,400'. John Simon was
much lower than me and he also climbed up as slowly as I. The lift was often
weak and broken and the wind pushed us sideways. I climbed right up over the
airport at Williston without recognizing our familiar goal. I was working 100 to
200 fpm and sometimes 300 fpm.
The wind and the clouds made for a lot of zig zagging. North of Williston the
wind died down and I was six kilometers east of the course line. I had been east
of the course line the whole flight. There was a blue hole to my north northwest
so I looked at going back toward the north northwest.
In that direction it was completely shaded to the west. I was concerned about
the possibly of a sea breeze and over development, still it looked like the
better option. I was now finding 250 to 300 fpm averaged lift.
I worked my way around the blue hole staying on the edge of the clouds and
getting over sunlit areas. I could see a bit of rain off to the west. I was 2
kilometers west of the course line. Heading back toward sunlit areas to the
north northeast I got under a dark looking cu and finally found the strong lift
that had been missing all day. It averaged 400 fpm. As I twirled up I saw to the
east of me, Richard Lovelace, Jeff Shapiro and Malcolm Brown. I hadn't been
flying with anyone for quite a while.
We were just south of High Springs. The rain showers had opened up along the
course line to our north northwest. I headed northeast away from the rain and
toward sunlit fields and good looking isolated cu's. 10.2 kilometers east of the
course line and over I75 I found 275 fpm at 1,800'. Jeff Shapiro was right above
me.
The sky was now totally overcast from high thin clouds. The cu's were off to the
east and the ones to the west were mostly gone. We earlier saw the convergence
line further to the west with a few lower clouds. Now the question was to head
even further east away from the course line or go to what looked like a
convergence cloud.
There was smoke from a small fire way to the west. It was laying down and the
wind was blowing from the west, an obvious sea breeze. The thin cues to the
northwest did not give a clear signal that they were convergence clouds. The
clouds to the east were clearly working but they were quite a bit off the course
line. I headed for the clouds to the north northwest.
Down to 1,500' under the clouds I found 200 fpm. It was smooth and I was
surprised that there was actual lift over the shaded ground. After gaining
500' I started to get rocked around a bit, the classic sign of being on the
wrong side of the convergence. Still I was going up and at 2,000' I was going to
stay right there.
At 2,500' I felt the first rain drops. It quickly turned into a shower and I ran
to the north toward the next cu as quickly as I could. It took a long while to
get out of the rain. I saw Jeff and Richard zoom in under me and land next to
the freeway.
I didn't make it to the next cu and landed just west of the Lake City airport.
The airfield that we could have made as goal.
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