Glad that it worked out and that you had fun. Definitely a more challenging kind of task! Congrats to everyone for making it around.

On Wednesday, July 23, 2014 11:35:35 PM UTC-4, Tony wrote:
On Wednesday, July 23, 2014 8:17:18 PM UTC-5, Bill D wrote:

On Wednesday, July 23, 2014 7:12:41 PM UTC-6, lynn wrote:



On Wednesday, July 23, 2014 3:09:49 PM UTC-5, Sean Fidler wrote:







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I am really happy to see this! Its of course a very strong day down there (finally). I would be interested in hearing everybody's feedback as to how they liked the Assigned task today vs. the more typical Turn Area Tasks.































Maybe the CD even put a time limit on the start cylinder (say 15 minutes)!































Just kiddin ;-)































Sean















By Texas norms, it was a weak day for half the task with massive gaggles along the first leg (68+/- miles). The glut of sailplanes at each thermal seemed somewhat hazardous. Lift in the range of 300fpm and max heights around 5000 to 6000MSL with ground elevations of 700 to 1300ft. The last 60 to 70 miles lacked any clouds and lower max gains as one approached the finish. Wishing for a repeat of 2011 summer when the norm was 600 to 1200fpm and cloud bases of 8000 to 12000msl.







Apparently Kathy Fosha was able to make the most of it. Congratulation to her for a first place day.



It was a fun and challenging day. Just what you should expect I suppose. Of course we were all hoping for blazing speeds and to be home in less than 4 hours. Clouds did not develop as well as we were hoping. There were a few sizable blue holes on course and the last leg home was blue for everyone. I started early and the gaggle didn't catch me until the second turn. Everyone got along well and flew nicely. We have a lot of very skilled pilots here. As far as I could tell in Club Class at least, everyone enjoyed the assigned task and had fun.