Condor Racing
Tuesday's task was 191kms in Austria, from a competition flight from Condor GP2020.
With no PDA's allowed on this flight, those using TrackIR had printed out a chart and the VR's had taken a bit of time to learn how to pin the chart into the Condor cockpit. The latecomers missed out on any helpful navigation tools / briefing and were largely making use of lead and follow.
Thermals at the start - St-Georgen were tricky low down in the moderate northwesterly wind and it took an hour and half for all 8 of us to get high enough to make a start on the task.
Taking a few thermals on the first leg before dropping back to the ridges, everyone made good progress with the field spreading out along the leg.
With early leader Chris running late, Jill took over at the front of the group to the turnpoint locating some good lift at the turn, whilst Stewart encouraged everyone to keep up.
Heading south east, the route downwind across the ridges proved challenging with no PDA. Jill parked on a ridge whilst trying to work out where to go in the confusing terrain. DC got very low and opted for a different valley, Fortunately Dan arrived to spectate and helped navigate Jill, Simon and Rob through and over some narrow passes, whilst Stewart guided Geoff, Mike and David Cott down the conventional route.
All completed successfully, an interesting but tricky task in 2 - 2½ hours, with thanks to Stewart and Dan for getting us all home to Mauterndorf. - J&P
