The grid opened early, so 230 (Pete Startup), DD3 (Phil Morrison and JB) and JDP (Dan Hender) were on the line by 8:30am! The briefing was at 10:00am, setting task A as 301k, NYM - Chievely - Bozeat - NYM, although once the pilots were putting it into their Oudies, they realised it was actually only 292km. Dan briefly toyed with the idea of doing his 300k (again), but his competitive side won through, and loaded the task instead!
JDP
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| Sky still looks good (Rob Hender) |
"On the first leg, I didn’t get very high, but I didn’t feel like it was
too slow, second leg was good in the peak of the day and much better and
a bit faster.
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| Silverstone from JDP (Dan Hender) |
I got to the second turn point and was disappointed when I realised I still had 130k to go! The last leg home was very difficult, got to a very low point, and had to try four different clouds before finding any lift. I had an excellent field picked out as the cows seemed to get bigger and bigger, but fortunately didn’t need it. Very hard work, but I made it back! " Dan Hender
230
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| 230 getting back (Rob Hender) |
"Slow first 45 km, slow last 45km- but the rest was nice." Pete Startup
DD3
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| DD3 landing (Rob Hender) |
"Happy days at Sid's task week, not much progress on HS2." Phil Morrison
BBQ tonight before Team Hender leave for home, good luck to the
remaining North Hill pilots for the rest of the week.
- Sally Hender
