"I first did little bit of soaring around to get used to the LS7 and landed, I thought doing an outlanding on my 1st landing would not be very wise. After a little rest I was planning to go to Boggabri Mullaley and return. All was good in Boggabri so I pushed a bit to Banbaa and I wanted to go down on the edge of the pilliga scrub, but there were only small and sparse clouds so I went down to Mullaley. Since all was still good I headed to Tambar Springs. The west was over-developing a bit so I headed to Premer and just after I turned it started to slow down. I had a down wind leg so I took weak thermals drifting home and waiting till it cycled. Then it became bombastic and I came back.
Since the conditions forecast was similar for today I planed a 300km for the gold distance. LK-Narrabri-Premer-LK.
Andrew Samson from the UK in the LS6 decided to fly the same task and we took off at the same time.
We got split just before the Kelvins, his thermaling was more efficient than mine but I was doing longer legs so I got ahead.
He caught up in Narrabri and I wasted some time to make sure my turn point got registered then we split and joined several times in the end he arrived a minute before me but much higher than me. I was aiming for 85km/h but I only achieved 79.5Km/h maybe tomorrow :)
Looking at the forecasts we could get close to 10'000 ft tomorrow but high probablility of thunderstorms, we will see in the morning.
You can see it live here http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0sKN7Qb6Yyecoi6GOpICCMukzxeeXlXp5
Cheers
Jacques"
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