Saturday's weather was horrible. It overconvected first
thing and started showering all around. Only one person managed to do anything
and it was Mark Brown. He flew 20 km down track and managed to return. However,
nobody else managed to do anything and the day did not count towards the
competition. Sunday turned out to be one of the days of the year. Roy
Dalling was so confident of how good that he set the same 310 km task for both
intermediate and pundit classes. The only difference was the intermediates
launched 40 minutes earlier. The task was Loch Kinord (Remote start) -
Dalwhinnie - Rhynie - Feshiebridge - Aboyne. As you can see, it took us over the
Cairngorm plateau 4 times in one flight!!! The views were spectacular and so
were the thermals. 6000' cloudbase and 6 - 8 knots everywhere. It was a bit
sticky around Rhynie in the sea breeze and later on sea air got as far as
Braemar making the last leg harder. 9 people got round the task including Andy
in 767 (Hors Concours) and Mark Brown. Mark can claim his 300k but unfortunately
for Andy, his GPS was not communicating properly. The novice class had 169km to
do from Loch Kinord - Grantown - Kingussie - Tomintoul - Aboyne. Only one person
got round as I believe Grantown was somewhat in the blue. Roger did very well
though turning Grantown and Kingussie before landing out at Feshie to come
second I believe. Well done Roger. Monday was blue and very flat. Nobody
even managed to stay up and most people had left by 3 o clock. However, Guy
Davidson took a launch, managed to climb up and set off on task. Guy managed to
land 0.73km past Y meaning he won the day. This puts Fulmar in first place now
and among Fulmar members warrants him hero status! Well done Guy. It was a well
deserved win.
The placings at the end of the meeting are:
1st: Fulmar
2nd: Cairngorm (Feshie) and SGU (Portmoak)
3rd: Deeside (Aboyne)
4th: Highland (Easterton)
5th: Borders (Milfield)