Champions
| Sports Class | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | SN | Bromhead Tim | 6,620 |
| 2 | XF | Honey Maurice | 6,409 |
| 3 | LX | Britton Robin | 5,131 |
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Tim\'s report
Surprise over development catches field in thefields. That\'s a quick way to summarise the day.We launched to a lovely looking sky, and thingswere progressing well. Our top turn point was a 5km circle around Kaihere, andthe bottom turn point 10km circle around Arapuni.The top turn point well and truly over developedas we all arrived. 4 of the 7 landed in paddocks. Actually it was 5 thanks toBill in the Lak who wasn\'t competing, but didn\'t want to miss out onthe action. Dennis was also followin...
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A Challenging Day 2
The day started with clear blue skies and a promisiong forecast so a 140 km to 200 km AAT task was set. The first glider launched shortly after noon into promising skies but an hour later the Northern half of the course was almost total overcast which meant most of the field landed out. Not Our Robin though, she was the only finisher and the 1000 points has put her into the lead. Hard luck for yesterday\'s winner who got the second circle size wrong and turned 3 km short then flew back to the ai...
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A successful first day
The 2009 National Sports Class Competition haskicked off today with a good solid day of flying.We have 7 competitors, with a couple only doinga few days due to other commitments. All are flying PW5s except for Robin inthe Ka6. A few turned up for practice day yesterday, which was an even betterflying day than today.This morning we woke to a not-very-promisingsheet of cloud covering the Waikato, Fin the task setteroptimistically giving a 51 to 49 percent chance of flying, in favour offlying. That...
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A successful first day
The 2009 National Sports Class Competition haskicked off today with a good solid day of flying.We have 7 competitors, with a couple only doinga few days due to other commitments. All are flying PW5s except for Robin inthe Ka6. A few turned up for practice day yesterday, which was an even betterflying day than today.This morning we woke to a not-very-promisingsheet of cloud covering the Waikato, Fin the task setteroptimistically giving a 51 to 49 percent chance of flying, in favour offlying. That...
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