Condor Racing
Friday's task was another fast race 70kms in the Alps from Interlaken taking in the high peaks of the Eiger, Monch and Jungfrau.
With a strong northwesterly wind, the two key points to this task was being high for the turnpoints on the peaks and speed control on the run in.
On the first exploratory run the grid was full of Club class gliders - Cirrus, LS4, ASW20 with 10 pilots starting. Some had problems with overspeeding at altitude, or flying too close to the sheer mountain walls.
On the second run, several Ventus' came out of the hangar and a Stemme and it was more of a race with a better feel for where the height needed to be gained. Need to do it again without the modified flight plan to log the best performances. - J&P
