Day3 - Pocklington
Today presented a very similar series of tasks to yesterday with Newark being the furthest point south. The maximum task distance was 252km.
We launched at around 1pm and it had been predicted that soaring would end abruptly between 4 and 5pm, giving us a 3-4 hour window making 200km seem achievable. The Eagle was first to launch from the NH gang and started very quickly after getting a good climb to almost 4000ft. There were some big holes which required long glides of 2000-3000ft each in the plastic ships. These gaps proved too much for the Eagle which landed out safely after bagging the first TP.
DD3 and JZK made it down to the second TP but the route to Newark looked bleak as the top cover had arrived early. Dad and I in JZK decided to press on and investigate if it was working under the top cover but struggled and then struggled even more to make it home with a few low points. We eventually managed to get into glide after diverting well east of Hull to get back out of the cover and took a climb back too almost 4500ft to put us on a 35km glide back to Pocklington. We saw a few gliders in fields on the way home.
It seems that only a few gliders managed to make it down to Newark and of those, only 1 or 2 made it back to Pocklington with all the others landing out or firing up their engines. - Pete Bennett
Today presented a very similar series of tasks to yesterday with Newark being the furthest point south. The maximum task distance was 252km.
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| Pete and Martin Bennett in DG505 (Pete Bennett) |
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| Eagle in another field (JB) |
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| DD3 crossing the Humber (Nick Jones) |
