Posted by Martin
Today started out with another Navigation task. In this one we had to fly out to a point 10km away directly into a 12km/h wind. There were 3 sections to this task. Average speed over all three sections had to be declared.
The first leg was a straight upwind leg into wind avoiding no fly zones. The second leg was a deliberately give squigly line or meandering route that was 44km long. The last leg was a straight downwind run with the wind. All the different directions into and with the wind makes it very difficult to declare a average speed over the course. To help you make do this, you set up time markers all along the route. Theoretically if you hit each one on the right time, your average time will be spot on.
In international competitions such as this, i have come to realise, it is not as much the hot shot pilots who scores the best, but more those who consistantly does not mess up. With this in mind my tactic was to not push any individual task but to consistantly score in each task. This has worked fairly well for me so far. Yesterday there were some mishaps in the cloverleaf and even though i have a slow time there, i managed to claw my way to the first slot in the SA team (unofficially so far). Shortlived i have to assume since although victory, i was toaught, might just be around the next bend, dissapointment lurks around the next dark corner.
Halfway through this task that i believe i was nailing (navigation is my best skill),i realise that i have not switched on my logger, or my back up logger. This effectively means ZERO, ZIP, NADA score since there is no proof of my flight. Realising this i turned around and headed home.
Oh well such is life. Better luck next time and all that rubbish.
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