38 58 10.92 N,75 52 0.00 W,Highland Aerosports, Ridgely,
Maryland, USA

The forecast was for thunderstorms. Light north winds on the
ground up to 15 mph at 2,000'. We set up near the camping area then move down to
the north/south grass runway to actually tow into the wind.

The task is 55 kilometers to the south with a turn point 29 kilometers to the
south to keep us away from Easton airspace. The sky is almost completely full of
cu's many of them towering. Plenty of sunlit spots also, and blue sky. With rain
just to our north, we suspend the launch. Half an hour later it has gone by us
and launch is open again in the sunlight with a cloud street just to our 
west.

I take off followed by Bruce and Pete. There is lift under the cloud street and
I climb to 3,000' Bruce glides south just in front of me. Pete had a weaklink
break at 1,400' and is circling up below me as I head out down the cloud street
at cloud base.

Since I have been seeing towering cu's around I stick close to the edge of the
street just in case I need to run to get away from cloud suck. The street takes
me off at an angle to the south southwest while the course line is due south.

At nine km out from the start the rain under the cloud street begins, not that
far from where the cloud street ends. I race to the south southeast to get away
from the rain, away from the cloud, but this takes three or four kilometers out
into the blue. There is a line of cu-nimbs to the east sucking up all the clouds
in that direction.

I head south southeast toward the course line but I'm not finding any lift. I
have to turn just before the Tuckahoe river as I'm down to 350' and land in a
corn field with corn quite low a little over 16 km from the start.

Later Pete goes down the same cloud street and circles up in the rain. He is
able to get to cloud base in the rain and then glide to the south southeast to
land near the turnpoint at Magfarm, at 29 km out. Bruce lands between us.

The task is stopped at 2:15 PM, forty five minutes after the start gate opened
so the task is cancelled. The sport task also (which was to MagFarm).

Open class results:

https://airtribune.com/ecc2015/results/task3/comp/class-1

Sport Class results:

https://airtribune.com/ecc2015/results/task3/comp/class-1-sport

Only two days out of seven that we had actual real tasks, but four
days of attempted tasks. The flying was lovely here as always. Even with all the
cu-nimb activity the air was for the most part very pleasant. We didn't land in
wheat fields (they can be a lot higher than you think. Plenty of corn and soy
bean fields to land in. As well as airports at goal. Last year we flew seven out
of seven days.