On Sunday evening the virtual skies of Devon and Somerset were filled again, as 8 Club members took off to complete the DSGC twice-weekly task.
Once again still smoothing out some technical details, we flew the route from the North Hill, up to Tiverton, across to Wellington and back, but this time we had our highest success rate yet with all 8 pilots that started the race, finishing the race in one piece.
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| Winch launching (Stewart Henshall) |
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| Landing back at North Hill (Ben Watkins) |
After some troubled starts and some 'outstanding lift' being used, all the Standard Cirrus' crossed the start line heading off towards Tiverton.
Matt Howard and Dan Hender led most of the race being almost 5nm ahead of third place Stewart Henshall (who was probably a bit tired after competing in the Condor Grand Prix race). Then a slight error with height judgement left Matt and Dan needing another climb before the finish, giving enough time for Stewart to sneak in and take the victory. And a 200 point penalty for Matt allowed Phil Morrison to take third place.
The Hender household are now flying in two rooms.... where's Sally?
For this race we were also testing the new spectator mode that Condor has added to allow for spectators to watch the race. Jill and Pete Harmer struggled to get the new feature to work but supported via Matt's live stream instead.
Well done also to Rob Hender, Geoff Lawrence, John Davis and David Clements for all completing their first tasks.
Thanks to Ben Watkins for hosting the server (and has promised to join the race as well next time.) - Matt Howard
