It was glorious weather at Lake Keepit today. Graham Holland and I in the Twin Astir were the only ones gliding.
Using the Blipmap my plan was quite ambitious, but we lost a lot of time. We started at 13:30 at 4600 ft and didn't get above 6500ft in the first hour. Then SW of Barraba the few Cu at 9000 ft were all dumpers. Finally we achieved only 220 km through Barraba and Mullaley at 60 km/hr. (Sorry about the boring excuses.)
The strong lift under Cu based at 10,000ft lasted only from 15:00 to 16:30, as forecast. We caught it at Boggabri, and had a ball! We had final glide on a 3 knot MacCready setting already at Mullaley, 64 km out. The last big Cu at Gunnedah had an enormous 11-knot thermal. We coasted straight through it, gaining 2000 ft on the final glide, and flew the 25 km home at 90 knots.
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