Upity, up, up and a miss

Post by Tony

This morning was a rather interesting task calling for the Triangle Circle Task. We had a wind blowing in from the North this morning at 4:45am and take off was 6am. The first pilots through from SA were Peiter on Deck 2 and Mias and Anton in on deck 1. Both had incidents and pieter was able to run his task again after another pilot cut him off. Our Tandem Marathon team have decided the half Matathon run is easier to get off the ground and they flew the task but some how managed to clip there prop and decided to bail the task and return to the landing deck. Paul had his throttle get stuck at full power as he rounded the Pylon and had to kill his motor and then land in the task area for saftey reasons. He is fine and ready for the next task to be flown. The rest of us had great flights with some of us getting all the pylons and kick and some missing one or two.
i got a big scare when i kicked the first padded pylon it folded over and grabbed my speed bar and pulled me over forward before releasing again. I still continued to the next and eventualy missed the same pylon that grabbed me to finninsh with an OK time . Kieth i think did the bets out of all of us on this with closed trims and full speed bar.

the wind is around 35km/h now and the task window has been open for 1h30min and we are still sitting here waiting for somethin to happen. no one seems interested in taking the risk in flying this. But dont get me wrong we are rearing to get ing the air because this task is easy point as it is a waypoint hunt and we are fast so can collect them fast.