Thursday
Was too windy so I decided to upgrade my Aircotec. It was funny as after my firmware upgrade in German the system would not turn on. So I went back to the café to check and see what others had put on the web …. they recommended taking the unit apart and removed the battery which fixed the problem.
Friday
The forecast predicted that we should have epic conditions. Setting up on the SW takeoff. With a race start at 12:55 I took off in the open launch as I did not have a good launch number. I went early at 12 and climbed out to 2,200 above take off by 12:10 and noticed we were already at the bottom of the cloud with almost an hour to hang out in a 2k radius. As per normal this week the conditions began to get weak as the gate opens. I have to question why we are taking off so late in the day as during the best part we had to hold over launch today.
Just before the window opened a different air mass pushed in dropping the base progressively on the course line. About 5 k’s out I was surrounded by an air mass with a change in dew points as cloud was developing 1000m below me and I got to surf this mass of cloud -- its was amazing as pilots were below and it looked like a waterfall.
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