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I'm not even going up just to confuse people circling sink
10-year history of this event goes the xc camp and xc up and previously this style event with lots of different levels of pilots
It's the first time in any of these events in 10 years that we've had flights over 300 kilometers
So I'm quite a few of those, it would be four or five altogether over 300 k's
Putting Cycletor here
Everyone did a PV of 300 k's including me so it was a really really good day at the end
Way out in Lightning Bridge and Walbert and Solar and up towards the Queensland forward
So the winners yesterday, they flew together the whole way and I might add on intermediate style gliders
It goes to show that you don't have to fly a hot ship or a hot performance glider to do distance
So the winner was Shae and Jason both did 363 k's
And for our cracking flight, I might add a cracking flight
So come on out, I will review because we'll come out later, thank you
Thank you so much
Tell us all about the day
Why do you display your Delta II so it's an intermediate glider with the current generation?
Yeah
When I got up to Helios, I wasn't actually feeling that well because it was quite the day before
So just as I decided to take off early, they were pretty good and fly around the sea after all
As soon as I took off, I noticed it was pretty good in the air
And I started flying out the front straight away to see what the climbs were like coming off the paddocks
Rather than off the hill and just also keeping my eye on what it was doing out in the back
Because I mean, I just got rid of that like yesterday
The first flight out here, you're on to, you're coming off really good terrain
On to lower hills so often that's when your deck, you know, you go early
And it's really, really scratchy and hard to get to the gap
So what I wanted to see is what the climbs were like coming off the paddocks
And then also just looking for cloud development starting out
Once that, you know, it's actually started heating up out there
So that happened quite early and a bunch of people launched and it was quite good
Early and I was flying with a couple of my team mates just helped them along to basically to the Miho gap
Miho gap, Miho gap, and then to the bottom right of mine
I might just add, like, I've heard of Shav's radio a few times and he's egging his team
And there's a long, long time with him and kids, so we should go
So that's the sort of thing that an experienced pilot does when they know what they should be doing
Yeah, yeah, I wanted to kind of give, so I was trying to give, for the first 50 k's
I was trying to give my guys a bit of an idea of the way I'm flying, what I'm looking at
And when to go, a bit of decision making stuff
And about when we were at the mine, I could see Jason ahead of me, probably two climbs ahead
And he just kept getting good climbs and just pushing and pushing
So I was like, okay, that's his, this day's on, we're going to go
So from there it was just a real push to catch up with him
And I thought even about Narrow Drive, just where the cloud street ended
And he took a line a little bit further to the north and got a bit low
And I just decided to go a little bit to the south, just kind of along the edge of the pillar there
And as soon as I've won the light into the blue, I've got three metres a second and I knew it was working
And so once you get around that corner there, you get that kind of wind
There's a big compression effect of the regional wind going around that capitalise
And on the ground the guys have landed at round another pace
And really strong divisions in landing
Yeah, so around that area I was trying to decide whether to go north and connect with the clouds
Or whether that true kind of gradient like southeast, east-south-east would continue out that way
And once I got out that way, I decided that it was yet on for the kind of logo
That area I kept going that way, decided not to go north, not to follow the clouds
And the blue seemed to be working, so yeah, we started getting good clouds
And we're probably in blue for the next 150 kilometres or so
And then later in the day, we had good cloud stages all together
So just more heating out there, you know, drier air mass
And then, yeah, the last kind of good clouds, you know, solid clouds already, kind of 2800
And flying cross-tail all the way, so we weren't even flying true-tail wind through the clouds
What time is it now?
I think about eight o'clock, so about nine o'clock
Yeah, and with Jason the whole way, kind of connecting with him
Sometimes we could go out and sort of make our way to the sea
And we're flying all the way
Same station, congratulations
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Going out towards North of Brighton Ridge
A couple other pilots that did really well yesterday
Shane's high, Shane's high wherever you might be, so come on out
Excellent, awesome flight, flying a Poison 3 next to your class
But normally he just sort of fumbles around, he did 275 yesterday
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You didn't find a tan, what were you doing?
No, we didn't find a tan, we were in Steve Stockings' wing, and we didn't go
Yeah, that's it, what was the period before that?
Oh, 100
100, so it's gone like 275
But that's not this event all about, I was going to read you that one
What was the first class you did?
Colour in the ground, that'll be the one
Not much going on there, midnight I can tell you
There's a ton of much going on there in the evening
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And did you do the same round as Shane, like buying our brand here at the first class street?
Probably, more than both
The main, the fat lab
And the last one we had, which was pretty easy, just followed the clouds
Yeah, chase the clouds, join the gods, keep going
Yeah, not on viral all the time, so really the clouds
But at the end it was really bright, so I'd get in 24 hours
Yeah, and you landed at 8 o'clock in the morning?
Oh, just before 7.30
I was getting pretty worn out by then, and I started leaving the cons early
So that's your longest flight, time wise, or what?
Yeah, 8 hours
8 hours
Awesome stuff
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That's pretty cool, you don't even know the wind
Most people get in tune with their own life, nicely too
In sport class, in sport class, like, anyway, sports class pilot
248th Stephen Noble on his seat makes, and congratulations to the water company as well
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This flight goes to show you, because I don't need the latest equipment
Like me, you know, with, like, six year old gliders, and still really distances
Like, the glider that I applied, all the high end Vs are actually flying the same
And the glider I applied, just in case you're wondering
What was your business?
What was it?
What was your business?
Uh, 359
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That's enough of you guys flying high Vs, like Rush forward, Mentor 3s, we've got better gliders
So there's no reason why you can't do good distances, like, it's just a case of the pilot, generally
In fun class, the excellent VV from Captain Ranger Aromiko
on his outfit, 550 to Weewall
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I'm going to text this to Shreveen, just to, I mean, Weewall and Yari, he can actually put the distance
I don't know, he knew he was a long way from home, so we'll talk
No, you're probably sure you're pulling him down
In terms of VVs, we had Klaus on 314, Stephen on 248th, just to read out
If you've gone to Pierre, 240, Florentine from Tahiti, in fact, all those 80 guys, 240
Fabrice, 208, Johannes did a 160, holy smokes, Johannes put him here, well done
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I hope you're having fun, we enjoy his coffees every morning, if you haven't, you should try them
because it's an absolute pro
Greg Wah on his Chile 300, 18, well done, Greg Wah
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I've got 103 on the Alpina, we have the Kazimotosan, 103, we have the Pristina
so that's excellent for filming
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We've got one of the other Japanese, a little bit of flight 2, he passed him
and flew over the top of him on a stage, that was Fujiwara-san on the 268th
which definitely would have been a pity for him as well
Greg Wah down there, which is great
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It's something like 30 Japanese here, and to fly in Japan is really difficult
to do the cross country, for those guys to do over 100
for them is like a national record distance almost
Seriously, to do 260 or 270 in Fujiwara-san is a very big achievement for Japanese pilots
and that's why they like coming back all the time
Don't haze on my old students on the Delta 290 case
so congrats to that, come and play the saxophone with me
and that's where I might be
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And for his first live-act job wrestle, it's on December 25
So welcome, John, over there
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We're looking out the window already today
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