Friday 5th July - Competition Enterprise

A good day dawned, and the task setters were thinking great distances.The task was set as 'Some days are Diamonds' and a range of turn points were set at varying distances to cover the various performance of gliders (and expertise of the pilots). The line was chosen to the north east of North Hill, The Park, Avebury, Wantage, Newport Pagnell, Grafham water.
The day developed slightly better than forecast:
JB and Malcolm flew in Eagle BBB and although it had a good soaring flight turned short of the first turning point, Andrew in Cirrus KEB wanted to experience a long aerotow retrieve and landed at The Park. Congratulations to Jonathan ASW19 877 for turning the Park for Silver Distance and getting back as far as Chard. (having learnt much from Bob Bromwich in the DG500 on the flight on Wednesday). Matt ASW24 M5 and Rowan Libelle CLM both turned Wantage, and Ron and Dan in ASH25 711 went one further to Newport Pagnell.  The day winner was infamous Trevor Stuart in ASW27 who turned the furthest point of Grafham Water and returned landing near Taunton achieving 505km.

Diamond boy

However, congratulations to  Star of the day, Liam in Ka6 HEB (scoring equal 3rd with Ron in the ASH) and completing his Gold Distance and Diamond Goal with Culmstock - Wantage out and return, although he didn't quite have the legs to get back from the convergence line and sensibly landed just short of the airfield at Blackborough.
See the Competition Enterprise tasks and results on DSGC website.