first day in Waikerie

So, we are here in the world famous Waikerie. We had a nice drive yesterday and made it here in just 6 hours. It is hot. It is really hot and it's gonna get worse.

dry South Australia

Jack's state of the art trailer

People got overexcited with weather predictions yesterday. Since you can fly your own declared task in this competition and still be scored I decided to warm up with a 400 km triangle speed record attempt. I prepared 3 versions of the task and we got up and ready early in the morning to prepare everything. 

it it really gonna be that good?

nice cool beer and a big bottle of water for rehydration after a long day

The predictions were talking 12000 ft day with a change coming through late on Sunday. This morning is bit disappointing though. Hot as hell, patches of thick cirrus over the whole area and change expected at 3pm today. If we get lucky we might get 6000ft somewhere to the east. We'll be having one more briefing in 20 minutes. I decided to fly the set task today with all the others. Next week can be better. I've got a beautiful 3TP 750km task prepared and it would be a shame not to even try it.

10 minutes ago