David 01.02.2025 15:32:58 Good one with the LS , Peter .
Great news, Brad. I was a little bit worried about you, good to read from you again. Very good!
So we will fly Condor 2 tonight, I planned to fly ASW20, if Brad takes part. The suggest course will follow later today
I have been busy these past couple of weeks, but was able to catch up tonight. Marvelous OneDesign flight Dave, very well done sir, congratulations!
Great flight, Brad, but too sad with the last lift.
Today I flew a Journey flight with the weather of task A 2025, OneDesign will get that and the others the same but with much more wind, because we will start with a mountain task. If that doesn't work I don't know what I do. Especially OneDesign will be nice, I'm sure. Mountain tasks are always more difficult to set IMHO.
I don't promise anything, but I hope the best ;-)
Thank you Brad. The LS3 is for me the best plane in the series, maybe it matches good to my flight style. On paper the ASW20 is better, but not for me. I only had to take it for the last task of the 2024 season.
Happy New Year to all of you. We have 4,5 hours left here ;-)
Nice flight Brad, but like the rest of us , landouts.
Peter, I knew where the field was, but finding lift was hard. I used my laptop as a map, worked real good.
Yes, welcome MG2, hope to see more flights from you. If you have any question, please ask.
I like the SF28, brilliant how Condor simulates it's behavior.
This season I wanted to fly all planes, next season I will focus only on a few. DG100 will be my plane for LS3 category, SF28 for Blanik. Not sure yet for Cirrus, maybe Libelle or Cirrus.
Have thought about OneDesign. Flying always the Baby can be hard. Of course it's the perfect plane for Vintage, but I was thinking about Cirrus with ballast. What do you think?
Next year will come some very nice new planes, f.x. ASK13, Fauvel, Pirat. Maybe I will fly then more different planes than planned today. Will see ;-)
Welcome MG2! Good to have another joining the scoresheet!
I think your SF-28 looks great, Peter, inside and outside. It sounds like you plan to, and will, have many enjoyable flights with it!
Dave, I agree that the 1-26 in challenging conditions, when lift is widely spaced, is very tricky. The only real goal when that happens is staying in the air! If you can do that, then the time and distance takes care of itself. I know, easier said than done! ;-)
Thanks. It's a nice task, thermals not too bombastic, feels very realistic
Some thoughts to the last task. All categories are decided, there is no change of the leader possible. But the championship is still open.
Today I have 1242 points, Brad 1230. If Brad wins 3 categories in task K he will get 180 points. Then in best case I only can win one category and get two 2nd places. That gives max 168 points. Over all Brad can replace 168 points by 180, with 168 points I can't increase my result. So Brad will get 12 points more and we have a tie, 1242 points both.
The rule for a tie says, that the best flight of the most flown category will decide the winner. Today the most flown category is Cirrus (see "Best flights by series", 37 flights so far in Cirrus), best flights on top of the list are my Libelle flight with 240 points and second my ASK21 flight with 227 points. The Libelle flight was with 105 minutes time limit, but the ASK21 with 90 minutes time limit. Because it's not fair IMHO while we fly 90 minutes now, I will ignore the Libelle flight in case of a tie, top flight in this category for that calculation is the ASK21 flight with 227,31 points.
I cross the fingers for you, Brad. Three categories to win and more than 227,31 points in the Cirrus, if nothing changes on that list is your aim for this task. Good luck!
But don't expect that I will make it easy, I only need the best 90 minutes flight in Cirrus ;-)