June fumes
The June Gauntlet was a scorcher - not for the speed of cross-country flight, more for the heat & inversion in the North Easter - and mainly for the fact that the club appeared like it had been the subject of another US military style "scorched earth" policy with very few members about.
For rugby fans, Saturday 2nd June at Worcester was like the first half of the 2nd Test with England. Seemed like we were playing with only half a team. The upside is that in second half of the 2nd Test everything seemed to come together, can we make it like that at Worcester? I think so.
Owing to Herr Direktor's carelessly broken foot, Sven Olivier kindly agreed to direct for the day and set a 2.5 hour OLC variant (thanks, Sven). Only four competitors (EY, ID, GOK with Martin Grunnert and Jaco "Graphics" Hartmann, and HW) were in the running, but witha NEr (our most difficult conditions) Vic Peak was struggling to keep William (HW) Whitaker and Peter (ID) Farrell airborne. GOK tried Audensberg to no avail, and anyway with a start at Rawsonville it would have been pretty challenging.
Herr deputy (EY) Direktor decided that technical dificulties made launching inadvisable (yeah, right, nothing to do with the weather? No, of course not. I thought so).
So it was rather a quiet day at Worcester (with Craig Fussell having a few paxes) and the scores remain unchanged. Or do they? We have not implemented the drop-a-day rule agreed at the beginning of this season as I was intending to give it force & effect after June's Gauntlet. Interestingly, in "drop-a-day", LW is one point ahead of ID, but we will hold off publishing the scores with the drop-a-day rule until there is another valid competition day.
Next month, July 7th, we will be having a club social as well as a Gauntlet. Lyneth Milne has asked if she can stand everyone a round of drinks in memory of Garth - who fondly remembered the treatment he got (tray service on the runway!) after one of his achievements.
Since the Gauntlet is about encouraging enjoyment of safe cross-country flight, this 'demotivator' from www.despair.com particularly apt. Make sure YOU always have somewhere to go:
See you there. IF you can handle it!
For rugby fans, Saturday 2nd June at Worcester was like the first half of the 2nd Test with England. Seemed like we were playing with only half a team. The upside is that in second half of the 2nd Test everything seemed to come together, can we make it like that at Worcester? I think so.
Owing to Herr Direktor's carelessly broken foot, Sven Olivier kindly agreed to direct for the day and set a 2.5 hour OLC variant (thanks, Sven). Only four competitors (EY, ID, GOK with Martin Grunnert and Jaco "Graphics" Hartmann, and HW) were in the running, but witha NEr (our most difficult conditions) Vic Peak was struggling to keep William (HW) Whitaker and Peter (ID) Farrell airborne. GOK tried Audensberg to no avail, and anyway with a start at Rawsonville it would have been pretty challenging.
Herr deputy (EY) Direktor decided that technical dificulties made launching inadvisable (yeah, right, nothing to do with the weather? No, of course not. I thought so).
So it was rather a quiet day at Worcester (with Craig Fussell having a few paxes) and the scores remain unchanged. Or do they? We have not implemented the drop-a-day rule agreed at the beginning of this season as I was intending to give it force & effect after June's Gauntlet. Interestingly, in "drop-a-day", LW is one point ahead of ID, but we will hold off publishing the scores with the drop-a-day rule until there is another valid competition day.
Next month, July 7th, we will be having a club social as well as a Gauntlet. Lyneth Milne has asked if she can stand everyone a round of drinks in memory of Garth - who fondly remembered the treatment he got (tray service on the runway!) after one of his achievements.
Since the Gauntlet is about encouraging enjoyment of safe cross-country flight, this 'demotivator' from www.despair.com particularly apt. Make sure YOU always have somewhere to go:
See you there. IF you can handle it!
posted by CGC Reporter at 5:43 AM
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