Well, we did fly. Director set the 15s and the opens a 350 first down to the S Downs then up to Olney via Hungerford. I thought that it would be poor North of the M40 so wanted to leave 4 hours for the task.
Started nicely at 13:21 and had a good run down to TRY where the cloudbase was down 1000ft lower. Round and back but low and scrabbly into the 23kt wind to AND and up towards GBE. Had a bit of save but able to clip the GBE sector and work downwind back up to cloudbase. Had a good run up to Brill but no good climbs available. Now faced with a decison...downwind to Aylesbury and risking the line going into Luton or North under an unpromising sky.
I chose wrong and ended up under 8/8 near BUC and low. Decided to back track to the sun but didn't connect so landed at BIC. Doh!!
Relight at BIC and had an interesting and tricky run home with all the pilots who made the right decisions and rounded OLN! Well done those guys.
Tomorrow??? Don't know. Trace will go on the ladder when the web site is back.
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Thoughts and progress reports from the 15M Nationals 2018 being held at Aston Down written for those that are interested in what happens at a competition. P**s takers and nay sayers can bog off elsewhere!
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