Condor Racing
The Tuesday racers and spectators visited the popular Italian alpine gliding site of Aosta, with a 209kms task in the mountains round the Matterhorn, and a fleet of Discus2a.
The plot was hatched for the routing round the valleys and how we could skip from ridge to ridge to reach the first turnpoint. The leaders - Geoff, Chris, Simon and John sped off as briefed towards the Matterhorn. David, Stewart and Jill took it a little more leisurely and just approaching the Matterhorn found a climb into the wave. The leaders came back to join in and once all had got up high, we set off for the turn.
There were more wave bars at the turnpoint and Stewart, David and Jill topped up to 25,000ft, whilst the low-level contingent struggled a little on the ridges not getting the benefit of the 28knot tailwind on the second leg.
Stewart, as always, hung back a little to take photographs of the stunning scenery whilst watching the progress of the back of the pack, whilst Jill headed straight for the finish line at adjusted Vne with several thousand feet to spare.
One of the most enjoyable tasks we have flown so far in a fantastic, realistic landscape. - J&P
In the evening, Dan consolidated his overall 1st place in the UK Junior Gliding eWinter Series Round 2 with a solid 9th place completing the 277kms task round Mount Cook in a splendid 208kph.
