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Precision landings More precision landings

Peter Glassey and Andrew Hiscock Joe provided hot field lunch
Sunday was a rinse and repeat with conditions really a fun weekend with everyone coming out with a little more
settled in the morning and by around lunchtime the wind experience in challenging conditions and pushing their
started building again. own personal envelopes.

Despite the occasional very strong winds, we managed to Full results are on Glider score online.
complete 10 full rounds in total and pack up at the targeted 1st Joe Wurts 8721.2
2 PM finish so as to allow the many who had travelled from 2nd Kevin Botherway 8581.9
far away to depart and hopefully arrive home at a 3rd David Griffin 8522.5
somewhat reasonable time. 4th Peter McEvoy 8460.2
5th Andrew Hiscock 8385.9
Landings were great with many certainly getting a lot 6th John Shaw 7999.3
more accurate on the finish of their flights. The launch 7th Peter Glassey 7893.1
height judgement was challenging as many were 8th Peter Williams 7883.6
targeting the 200-metre mark. The Skylab award for the 9th Aneil Patel 7717.9
highest launch of the weekend goes to David Ackery with 10th Stew Cox 7136.2
a stellar 266 metre launch. That said, there were a total of 11th David Ackery 6913.9
41 launches (out of 147 scoring launches) during the 12th David Crook 6733.2
weekend that were greater than 200 metres, so the 13th Myles Moloney 6558.3
competition was fierce for the highest launch contender! 14th Rob Morgan 5990.6
The average launch height for a scoring flight was 190 15th Rob Johnston 5990.6
metres. Another way to look at is that the lowest launch 16th Kevin Campbell 2170.9
for the weekend that also made full time was Peter
Glassey with a 148-metre launch. This demonstrated that NZ team for Argentina 2025 – Congratulations!!!! The
conditions were challenging, and when there were selected team is Joe Wurts, Kevin Botherway, Peter
thermals, the wind and turbulent air still made it difficult to McEvoy, with reserve pilot Aneil Patel. It is promising that
make full time. There were only a few slots during the we have more than three pilots that are wanting to
weekend that had good thermal conditions, and nobody represent NZ at a World Championship event!
was willing to risk a launch that was suitable for the
conditions during these few slots. The final group on the Like usual, soaring has a busy calendar. We have F3B
Sunday was won with a 3:43 flight with a 188m launch! – it next weekend, 7th & 8th September. Six pilots and six
was very tricky to say the least. family members are then off to Japan to experience the
APO (Asia Pacific Open) in the second half of September,
Super thanks to Joe who provided hot lunches on the field hoping to continue NZ dominance at the APO.
for both days (brisket on Saturday and pulled pork on Soarchamps is the following main feature on 17th to 20th
Sunday). There was also a fantastic barbecue and social October in Hawkes Bay.
on Saturday night that was provided by Andrew and Jane

Hiscock, that was not to be missed! This really completed Kevin Botherway psst... Soaring sti Rocks!!!!
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