Over and Done

Well its all over and I realy dont know what to say,I suppose dissapointed would sum this week up.
Poor weather, poor tasks, and a poorer scoring system which ended up discarding three of the five tasks with only Friday and Saturday scoring,this left a lot of people bemused and upset,after flying consistantly through the week and being in 17th position on Friday, I finished in 18th place with 923 pts on Saturday and dropped to 27th overall,the PWCA seem to be making a deliberate attempt to push racing at all costs,and punish good consistant good flying,and its not a route I want to go down.
So good bye from a wet, in more ways than one, GV PWC

Penultamet Day Horray

I am delighted to report a real task even if it was a realy slow xc sort of task,after 3 1/2 hours there were 12 pilots in goal ,unfortunatley no brits but four of us were about 6kms short,me Niel ,Kia and Mark all landing within a spit of the goal field,it does seem the days are pretty much over by 4pm (its dark by six) well its all change with the new PWCA scoring system and we will have to wait till tomorrow for the scores but me Niel and Kia should be very close and hopefully in the running for a good finish on Saturday,it maybe a big party on the final day so I will not promise a post tomorrow, good night from Brazil

steve.e

Rain Thermals ####

Thursday Task.
I stood on launch the window open the rain falling wathching pilots fly down to cloud base and dissapear,I think its a poor show that the PWCA in desperation to get a task in can set a 35km task in conditions I would not leave the house in to go flying and allow cloud flying in the rain to be the winning tacktics for the day(seven or so pilots who took the rain thermal gamble got too goal),my wing stayed packed up until an hour latter when the rain stopped and it looked like there was a chance of a dry glide angle test.Me and Neil sank down 8km towards goal landing in the same field and watched the rest of the field follow us down,all in all a pretty poor day!!

Rain

Its raining A LOT

Brazil Tuesday 24th March

Its a slight change of plan from my previous post when I said I would not go to Brazil and here I am in Brazil, Govenor Valadres too be presice,it the third day of the Paragliding World Cup but unfortunatly no task today.
I am curently in 15th position after the first two tasks,with my Niviuk Uk team mate Neil roberts in 17t,not bad for a couple of old giffers from up north,trying to get used to Brazilian conditions, which translates too weak lift and 30 degs with high humidity.
I am doing a fine impersonation of a garden sprinkler as I type this at 6pm in the sweltering heat,I may have to retreat to our room and down a few more ice cold largers ,its a hardlife but someone has to do it.
Oh almost forgot there are three more brits out here,Kia Colmen around the middle of the table ,mark Haymen in 80 ish and Craig Morgan in 108.I have some good pictures and will post as soon as I get a chance.
B4N Steve

Long Mynd Sunday 15th of march

About time,its a good forecast for Sunday 15th of March,Pete and me are heading of this evening for an early start,I have just sent a declaration for 160km flight to goal

Summary

Route Distance: 160 km	Estimated Time:4:43
Total Ascent: 0 m	Total Descent: 0 m

Elevation Profile

Waypoints

Leg	Name / Position / Elevation	Bearing	Distance	Ascent	Time	Comments	Photo
0	WP0001 SO 40357 92074
1	WP0002 SP 80491 15749	118°T	160 km	0 m	1 day, 4:43
Totals:			160 km	0 m	1 day, 4:43

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