Volume 34 No 4 Aug-Sept 1983.pdf - Lakes Gliding Club

An arresling shot ofthe slart ofIhe launching.very convective ·as the air was so unstable.Thai evening :saw the lormation 01 anexclusive club, Ihe Donkey Club, members ofwhich were instantly 'recognisable by theirlong floppy ears rolded in shame over theirfaces! Oh dear ...leading poe Dlst Pts Ov'II pts Ov'II pos1 Throssell 57.78 167 781 112 Garton3 Curtis4 Bishop5 Dixon6 ElliotlKmlh123.2 146113.9 133107.7 124106.9 123105.2 120109668649437967131525=3216Saturday, May 28, Rain • .• rain . .. rain • •.There was a choice 01 tasks sel: to watch avideo, have a sauna or play squash. At 1630to the disbelief of many, a Booker v Dunstablefootball match was held in the steadydrizzle - 24 players, one referee and RalphJones' dog could just be picked out in thegloom. Booker won 5-2. -The party and barbecue in the eveningwere a huge success and nobody seemed tocare about the rain.Sunday, May 29Two taSKS were set, 190km Oxford,Devizes and 152km Oxford, Marlborough; butthe cloudbase didn't rise above 25000, andthe visibility was poor. At 1400hrs the daywas scrubbed.However, as on previous scrubbed days,there was plenty on offer, including anothervideo and an air display. A contingent of theBooker mafia performed gliding aerobatics,then members of the real mafia gave a displayin two Hunter jets.Day 6, Monday, May 30, "A Day at theRaces"Task: 183.8km Towcester racecourse,Newbury racecourse.Once again pilots were launched into goodlift which was soon weakened by overconvectiondue to very moist air. Pilots weresoon sprinkled liberally over the task area,many on the first leg.Today it was the tenacious Denis Campbell'sturn to be the lonely finisher, havingflown doggedly around the task. Just howdogged is illustrated in his speed of40.73km/h! He said afterwards that his savinghad been to go east of track on the secondleg to Westcot, where the sun wasshining rather than along track Into the grot.With such unpredictable weather patterns:brief gaps in the cloud with strong lift followedby large dead patches, an element of luckinevitably crep( in,. This could have resulted ina pilot who struck lucky one day gaining anunassailable lead over the others; but due tothe scoring system, it remained a real contestright up until the last day. The poor weathersimply meant that the winners won byaccumUlating small quantities of points fordistance achieved rather than large quantitiesof points for speed around a task.leading poa Dlst PIs Ov'II pts Ov'II pos1 Campbell 40.73 123 938 62 Wells3= Heames3= Ellis5= King5= Camp5= PanyKm/h129.8113.8112.8100.399.699.8(Final results on p168)81696959595992829623480755455373337102223August/September 1983 167