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7 - 14 February 2009 |
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| Results | |
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Date |
Open | 15M | Standard | Sports | Comment | ||||||||
| 1 | 9/02/2009 |
Final | ||||||||||||
| 2 |
11/02/2009 |
Final | ||||||||||||
| 3 |
12/02/2009 |
Task | Day | Total | Task | Total | Day | Total | Task | Total | Final | |||
| 4 |
13/02/2009 |
Task | Day | Total | Task | Day | Total | Task | Day | Total | Task | Day | Total | Final |
| 5 |
14/02/2009 |
Task | Day | Total | Task | Day | Total | Task | Day | Total | Task | Day | Total | Final |
| 6 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 7 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| 8 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | |
| Total | Total | Total | Total | |||||||||||
7/02/2009 |
Extreme weather conditions with 25 kt winds gusting 50 kts and temperature peaking at 46 degrees C. Grass fires around Horsham resulted in the loss of some 10-12 houses, the golf club and about 40,000 trees. No fatalities or serious injuries reported. All ideas about flying were abandoned. | |
8/02/2009 |
Horsham airfield closed to glider operations due to intense water-bombing and fire-spotting aircraft traffic on the active runway. An enforced non-flying day. | |
9/02/2009 |
A generally blue day with a moderate SW wind. A separate racing task was set for each class with the task areas NE & north of Horsham. Some 30 gliders launched by 3 tugs in under 75 minutes. Most people had a good day with everyone getting home. | |
10/02/2009 |
A cool and partly cloudy day prior to gridding, with good cumulus streets and a 15-20 kt southerly wind. However by launch time the sky was over-developed and the temperature was falling. Six 15-metre class gliders were launched but 3 fell down immediately, with the remaining three able to achieve a slow climb to 5000 ft cloudbase. Deteriorating conditions forced cancellation of the day, although several gliders later managed good XC flights in the proposed task area north of Horsham. Them’s the breaks! | |
11/02/2009 |
Cool, cloudy and windy early in the day but cleared to a fine but windy afternoon. The task-setters opted for a moderate distance AAT with 20km circles at the two turn-points. It was a challenging day, especially the into-wind final leg, but everyone got home. | |
| 12/02/2009 | Persistent
strong S-SE winds kept temperatures down but provided some good streeting
opportunities. Open, 15M and Standard classes flew a racing task (range
263-313 km) with Sports class battling out a 3 hour AAT. Only one outlanding,
10km from home. |
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| 13/02/2009 | Soaring conditions improving, with moderating SE-E winds, bringing warmer temperatures but poorer visibility due to bushfire smoke from eastern areas. Sports class flew a 3.5 hr AAT, with most of the field returning early. Open, 15M and standard classes flew racing tasks ranging between 280 and 370 km. | |
| 14/02/2009 | The initially selected tasks to the south were abandoned before briefing due to heavy smoke in the Grampians area and replaced with a 150 km lap Run Task taking in Minyip, Warracknabeal and Antwerp to the north. It was a late start and all classes flew a 2 hr time frame with the exeption of Open class (2.5 hrs) - bringing everyone home in plenty of time for getting in flight data and de-rigging before the evening's festivities began. The soaring conditions were spectacular with many pilots reporting 11-12 kt climbs to 8-9,000 feet - it was hard to beat Jack Hart's 14 knot climb which he left when it weakened to only10 kts!! The week ended well with a lot of happy faces and promises to be there in 2010. | |
Last Update: 17/02/2009