Competition Sled Runs

Another flying day, another day of overdevelopment. As the task committee set a task, clouds behind launch were building, but everyone hoped that we would be able to get away in time. Unfortunately, that didn't happen.

Before I had a chance to launch, the task was cancelled. Almost everyone flew anyway, if only for 10 minutes. Kind of funny seeing competition gliders barely making a turn and simply heading for the landing area. Here's a pic:


You can't see the clouds behind launch in the picture, but as I was packing up my wing, it started to lightly rain. It was a relatively small cell that passed pretty quickly but it seemed that the wind picked up at higher altitudes after that, and it ended up raining again afterwards too.

The forecast doesn't look especially promising for the next two days, after which it is supposed to improve.

All of my frustration from yesterday is gone, and even those 10 minutes in the air were fun today. Not much you can do when the weather sucks, that is to say, you do something other than fly.

One more really good competition day would be fantastic - we'll see what happens.