Condor Racing this week
On Tuesday there was another rerun of the GP2020 Day 9 from Agathazel to try to improve on routings and times.
Wednesday with the Regulars not able to join the real flying, they joined in with the Condor cafe task.
On Thursday, the north easterly rotor at North Hill was too violent for any real flying, but in the evening some joined in the UK VSC Cirrus Cup task in very blue and hazy conditions.
For the Friday session we tried something different. We split the afternoon into 2 parts: our first go at some refresher training, followed by a quick go at the Rivoli-Noetsch Power task.
Pete gave a recap of the fundamentals of stall/spin concepts, then we joined a session to have a go. The scenario was a normal North Hill day, with a high airborne start in the Blanik - which does spin and recover nicely.
We found that Condor Spectate offered the best visuals for critique, Stewart volunteered as the first guinea pig followed by the Regulars with Pete and Simon providing the constructive Instructor feedback. The benefit of using Condor was that the exercise of spin entry and recovery could be repeated as often as required at no expense.
Everyone agreed that it was a very useful and worthwhile refresher exercise to increase skill and confidence, next week we plan to do launch failure exercises.
Everyone is getting much better at the Rivoli- Noetsch Power task with improved skills on speed and flap management. - Thanks Condor. - J&P
