Task 4 is another 109km task with Goal at Williston
Today the Rally begins as we will be sleeping in a different location tonight.
Other blogs:
Jamie - for news from her iphone
Jonny
Wills Wing pilots
Oz Report
Tom
29 April 2010
Flytec Race & Rally - Day 5 - Task 4
Task 4 is another 109km task with Goal at Williston
Today the Rally begins as we will be sleeping in a different location tonight.
Other blogs:
Jamie - for news from her iphone
Jonny
Wills Wing pilots
Oz Report
Tom
Flytec Race & Rally - Day 4 - Task 3 : 109km
A few sore heads this morning! Jonny put on his morning glory vid last night and Connie (Bobbies wife) cooked a lovely meal for us all then we tried to drink the weather better;-)
Even 'Sue' had a few to drink!
Task 3 - 109km
Task Winner - Zippy
THE SCORES
Other blogs:
Jamie - for news from her iphone
Jonny
Wills Wing pilots
Oz Report
Tom
Even 'Sue' had a few to drink!
Task 3 - 109km
Task Winner - Zippy
THE SCORES
Other blogs:
Jamie - for news from her iphone
Jonny
Wills Wing pilots
Oz Report
Tom
27 April 2010
Flytec Race & Rally - Day 3 - Task 2 : 87km Stopped
Task stopped – might not have been activated at 10km? Very windy and turbulent in an almost totally blue sky. Most landed back at Quest where we will be for the next 2 days due to the forecast wind direction.
It was a nice morning at Quest
Jonny's blond batten bunny:-)
Steve Kroop doing his Jim Carey mask impression!
Dustin n Nicole doin' it!
THE SCORES
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Jamie - for news from her iphone
Jonny
Wills Wing pilots
Oz Report
Tom
It was a nice morning at Quest
Jonny's blond batten bunny:-)
Steve Kroop doing his Jim Carey mask impression!
Dustin n Nicole doin' it!
THE SCORES
Other blogs:
Jamie - for news from her iphone
Jonny
Wills Wing pilots
Oz Report
Tom
26 April 2010
Flytec Race & Rally - Day 2 - cancelled
No task today – cancelled
The sky looked very nice earlier on but was too windy to fly – only just blown out – it is now lovely and blue as I chill out by the pool at Quest in the sunshine after a swim in the lake.
Surprisingly there were no sore heads this morning from last night’s bottle walking and cardboard game!
Nature's light show as the storm came through last night was incredible shame I’ve only photos of the rain!
Seems that Florida’s wildlife is making itself known........ Jeff Shapiro had an interesting time when he landed with an Ali and one of the Brazilian pilots was greeted by 3 black snakes! So far I’ve just been visited by the incredible fire ants which are unbearable and I’m sure sometime soon my feet will rot off!
THE SCORES
Other blogs:
Jamie
Jonny
Wills Wing pilots
Oz Report
Tom
Flytec Race & Rally - Day 1 - Task 1 update
Day 1 of the Flytec Race & Rally
Task 1 - 67km
I did pants. We took off early as the sky was overcast with embedded cu with a stiff breeze. We drifted out of the start about 8 mins before the start and 10 mins after I landed the cu and blue appeared after doing 17.6km! Sometimes its a luck thing, something I aint got! I landed in the same field as Davis and he and Belinda gave me a lift to Quest – thanks Belinda :-)
Dustin was the first in followed by Jonny the last one in. Every one else was somewhere between goal and launch.
It absolutely chucked it down here last night as the storm came in from the North.
THE SCORES
Other blogs:
Jamie
Jonny
Wills Wing pilots
25 April 2010
Flytec Race & Rally - Day 1 - Task 1
Day 1 today of the Flytec Race & Rally
Task 1 - 67km
This is the second Flytec Race & Rally which starts at The Florida Ridge and finishes wherever the wind and flying conditions take us!
Check out Jamies Blog for news as it happens.
23 April 2010
Rob Kells Memorial – The Florida Ridge – Day 7
Task 5
Scores on-line HERE
Other blogs:-
Jamie's Blog
Jonny's Blog
Tom's Blog
Ben's Blog
and there's more at The Oz Report Blog
Scores on-line HERE
Other blogs:-
Jamie's Blog
Jonny's Blog
Tom's Blog
Ben's Blog
and there's more at The Oz Report Blog
22 April 2010
Rob Kells Memorial – The Florida Ridge – Day 6
A quick update on today...........
Task 4
125km - 5 turnpoints back to The Ridge for Goal
Jonny first in
I had a lovely flight today all on my loansome apart from the last 15km and came in to land second (taking an earlier start to Jonny) I will maybe get 3rd on the day, we will see?
Jonny should be in the lead after today but the points are very tight at the top!
The glider is flying lovely and I'm here to have fun and enjoy my flying and that's what I am doing - let the big factory boys fight it out for the win I say.
There is talk that the Race & Rally might start a day early 'cos Saturday looks like a record breaking day according to Davis. Sunday looks stormy.
Task 4
125km - 5 turnpoints back to The Ridge for Goal
Jonny first in
I had a lovely flight today all on my loansome apart from the last 15km and came in to land second (taking an earlier start to Jonny) I will maybe get 3rd on the day, we will see?
Jonny should be in the lead after today but the points are very tight at the top!
The glider is flying lovely and I'm here to have fun and enjoy my flying and that's what I am doing - let the big factory boys fight it out for the win I say.
There is talk that the Race & Rally might start a day early 'cos Saturday looks like a record breaking day according to Davis. Sunday looks stormy.
Rob Kells Memorial – The Florida Ridge – Day 6
Task 4 - 125kms double dogleg out and return
Looks like a nice day at The Ridge. Very hot this morning with mist and now blue sky. Having my first cup of tea in the U.S They don't have kettles over here! They stopped drinking tea during the revolution to piss the English off as it was taxed so highly hence all the coffee. Belinda told me that. I have probably got it wrong but its near;-)
Suffering from fire ants trying to eat me. My ankles are now bandaged and all the pussy lumps are popped and cleaned out with alcohol and bacterial cream. They were leaking and all the flies were having dinner on me! Thanks for the cream and medicine Dave, fellow Yorkshireman! And the kettle:-)
Scores on-line HERE
Other blogs:-
Jamie's Blog
Jonny's Blog
Tom's Blog
Ben's Blog
and there's more at The Oz Report Blog
Looks like a nice day at The Ridge. Very hot this morning with mist and now blue sky. Having my first cup of tea in the U.S They don't have kettles over here! They stopped drinking tea during the revolution to piss the English off as it was taxed so highly hence all the coffee. Belinda told me that. I have probably got it wrong but its near;-)
Suffering from fire ants trying to eat me. My ankles are now bandaged and all the pussy lumps are popped and cleaned out with alcohol and bacterial cream. They were leaking and all the flies were having dinner on me! Thanks for the cream and medicine Dave, fellow Yorkshireman! And the kettle:-)
Scores on-line HERE
Other blogs:-
Jamie's Blog
Jonny's Blog
Tom's Blog
Ben's Blog
and there's more at The Oz Report Blog
Rob Kells Memorial – The Florida Ridge – Day 5
Task 3
84.9km - Winner Christopher Zimmerman
Had a good day even though the sky looked iffy. We did try and put the task back an hour but people were just too keen to get off the ground so we probably missed a right nice afternoon. Had a great start and took the second clock which was a glide at cloud base almost to the first turn point. I was flying with a Moyes that got towed to cloudbase, 1 min before the second clock on the edge of the circle;-) Nice work if you can get it.
I could see nothing but overcast on route so just tried to be patient and wait for the clouds to develop in the bit of blue. It was windy and crossed almost 90' which made life a little hard. Should have hung on another hour.
The glider is flying real nice and sweet - the carbon stinger will be the cherry on the cake.
Scores on-line HERE
Other blogs:-
Jamie's Blog
Jonny's Blog
Tom's Blog
Ben's Blog
and there's more at The Oz Report Blog
84.9km - Winner Christopher Zimmerman
Had a good day even though the sky looked iffy. We did try and put the task back an hour but people were just too keen to get off the ground so we probably missed a right nice afternoon. Had a great start and took the second clock which was a glide at cloud base almost to the first turn point. I was flying with a Moyes that got towed to cloudbase, 1 min before the second clock on the edge of the circle;-) Nice work if you can get it.
I could see nothing but overcast on route so just tried to be patient and wait for the clouds to develop in the bit of blue. It was windy and crossed almost 90' which made life a little hard. Should have hung on another hour.
The glider is flying real nice and sweet - the carbon stinger will be the cherry on the cake.
Scores on-line HERE
Other blogs:-
Jamie's Blog
Jonny's Blog
Tom's Blog
Ben's Blog
and there's more at The Oz Report Blog
Rob Kells Memorial – The Florida Ridge – Day 4
Task 2 - 104.6km
Task Winner Jeff Shapiro
Scores on-line HERE
Other blogs:-
Jamie's Blog
Jonny's Blog
Tom's Blog
Ben's Blog
and there's more at The Oz Report Blog
Jonny's video from Goal
Task Winner Jeff Shapiro
Scores on-line HERE
Other blogs:-
Jamie's Blog
Jonny's Blog
Tom's Blog
Ben's Blog
and there's more at The Oz Report Blog
Jonny's video from Goal
20 April 2010
Rob Kells Memorial – The Florida Ridge – Day 4
Task 2
A 105km task with 1 turnpoint has been set for today.
Update later...........
A 105km task with 1 turnpoint has been set for today.
Update later...........
Rob Kells Memorial – The Florida Ridge – Day 3
TASK 1
A short task today (48k) and I was not expecting to fly again as it was pants in the morning. The sky opened out and the cu started a popping even with the amazing amount of rain yesterday. It was nice to see so many smiling faces when we were setting up this morning. It makes such a change. I had to drink to the weather gods last night to make it happen of course;-) The guys are all sucking on beers back here at the Ridge laughing and frolicking in the evening sun.
I landed 10km short in an overcast sky but I really enjoyed flying the new wing. It will take a little bit of dialling into but is very similar in handling to the Combat so shouldn't be too hard I hope. Tomorrow looks better as the ground should have dried out a lot so we might get a nice high base.
Scores on-line HERE
Other blogs:-
Jamie's Blog
Jonny's Blog
and there's more at The Oz Report Blog
Jonny's video from Goal
A short task today (48k) and I was not expecting to fly again as it was pants in the morning. The sky opened out and the cu started a popping even with the amazing amount of rain yesterday. It was nice to see so many smiling faces when we were setting up this morning. It makes such a change. I had to drink to the weather gods last night to make it happen of course;-) The guys are all sucking on beers back here at the Ridge laughing and frolicking in the evening sun.
I landed 10km short in an overcast sky but I really enjoyed flying the new wing. It will take a little bit of dialling into but is very similar in handling to the Combat so shouldn't be too hard I hope. Tomorrow looks better as the ground should have dried out a lot so we might get a nice high base.
Scores on-line HERE
Other blogs:-
Jamie's Blog
Jonny's Blog
and there's more at The Oz Report Blog
Jonny's video from Goal
18 April 2010
17 April 2010
Rob Kells Memorial - The Florida Ridge - Day 1
First day of the Rob Kells Memorial Comp at The Florida Ridge today
It's raining in the sunshine state or at least it has been. Dustin set off on the 76k task and landed 30k short even though the task was stopped. It right pissed it down with more forecast tomorrow:-( It's still warm though and the glider is flying right nice!
Both Jamie and Jonny are blogging away:-
Jamie's Blog
Jonny's Blog
and there's more at The Oz Report Blog
It's raining in the sunshine state or at least it has been. Dustin set off on the 76k task and landed 30k short even though the task was stopped. It right pissed it down with more forecast tomorrow:-( It's still warm though and the glider is flying right nice!
Both Jamie and Jonny are blogging away:-
Jamie's Blog
Jonny's Blog
and there's more at The Oz Report Blog
3 April 2010
It's been a long six months :-)
It's been a long time since I posted on here - six months!
Over the winter months I moved to Facebook which seems to be the best way to keep in touch with all my flying ‘friends’and allowed me to dream of flying vicariously through their postings and blogs!
Flying for me during the past six months has been minimal due to the appalling weather we have had in the UK. Can you believe it is now Spring and yet we have more snow forecast?
At this time I should be in Bassano, Italy for the competition but due to a premonition of bad weather I binned that idea in favour of Florida which is where I’m heading on 14th April….. for a whole month to fly in the Rob Kells Memorial Competition and the Flytec Race & Rally.
The comp at Bassano has just had its first task (as predicted weather has not been great). There is some good reporting going on out there from:
The Comp Blog (how good is your Italian?)
Matjaz
Steve Leeman Facebook The UK Hang-Gliding Shack
Mark Stewart @ Twitter
Results Task 1
Primoz was the Winner of task 1 (photo by Steve Leeman)
Over the winter months I moved to Facebook which seems to be the best way to keep in touch with all my flying ‘friends’and allowed me to dream of flying vicariously through their postings and blogs!
Flying for me during the past six months has been minimal due to the appalling weather we have had in the UK. Can you believe it is now Spring and yet we have more snow forecast?
At this time I should be in Bassano, Italy for the competition but due to a premonition of bad weather I binned that idea in favour of Florida which is where I’m heading on 14th April….. for a whole month to fly in the Rob Kells Memorial Competition and the Flytec Race & Rally.
The comp at Bassano has just had its first task (as predicted weather has not been great). There is some good reporting going on out there from:
The Comp Blog (how good is your Italian?)
Matjaz
Steve Leeman Facebook The UK Hang-Gliding Shack
Mark Stewart @ Twitter
Results Task 1
Primoz was the Winner of task 1 (photo by Steve Leeman)
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