The Sky Wants Us to Return
competition|Davis Straub|Filippo Oppici|Kevin Carter|Larry Bunner|Paradise Airsports Nationals 2021|PG|Phill Bloom|Tyler Borradaile|Wills Wing T3|Willy Dydo|Zac Majors
We were confronted with a forecast that said we were going to get to only 3,000' and have really light lift. None of that was true but it made life difficult for the task committee. None the less with Larry Bunner's guidance we called a great task that took advantage of the superb conditions and got most of us back to Wilotree Park.
Now we have to be concerned about why the forecast was so wrong and how to deal with the fact that the forecast for Tuesday is similar. Likely we'll just grab another forecast from our set of models and also go with whatever Skew-T brews up for us.
Given our great uncertainty about the forecast we called for an elapsed task with no leading or arrival points. We were concerned that it would be difficult for pilots to hang around for an hour in poor conditions. As it turned out there was no reason for that.
I was about the third pilot to get hauled up as a few pilots in front of me backed out and went to the end. Phill Bloom was first off and I was hauled up right under him. We climbed right to cloud base at 4,100' and then sampled nearby clouds wondering who would go first. Raul left early.
Larry and I left a gaggle of about half a dozen of the top pilots to go to the next cloud just outside the start cylinder and got up back to cloud base. When they came to join us in the lift we headed back and got a later start time by about three minutes. We then caught back up with them.
The task was a bit complex:
There were cu's around and we just hopped from cu to cu, which is why we didn't follow straight along the course lines:
There was plenty of lift under most of the cu's and at one point it averaged 500 fpm for 3,500'.
The results can be found here: https://airtribune.com/2021-paradise-airsports-nationals/results/task5003/day/open-class
| # | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zac Majors | Wills Wing T3 144 | 01:46:52 | 981.2 |
| 2 | Kevin Dutt | Aeros Combat C 13.5 | 02:04:54 | 804.8 |
| 3 | Willy Dydo | Wills Wing T3 136 | 02:05:27 | 800.3 |
| 4 | Pedro L. garcia | Wills Wing T3 144 | 02:06:40 | 790.5 |
| 5 | Filippo Oppici | Wills Wing T3 144 | 02:06:47 | 789.6 |
| 6 | Tyler Borradaile | Moyes RX 3.5 Pro | 02:06:48 | 789.4 |
| 7 | Austin Marshall | Wills Wing T3 154 | 02:08:55 | 772.6 |
| 8 | Larry Bunner | Wills Wing T3 144 | 02:11:43 | 750.8 |
| 9 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T3 144 | 02:13:13 | 739.2 |
| 10 | Kevin Carter | Tbd | 02:15:57 | 718.5 |
Sport Class results here: https://airtribune.com/2021-paradise-airsports-nationals/results/task5002/day/sport-class
https://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:davisstraub/12.4.2021/17:08
https://www.xcontest.org/world/en/ranking-hg-national:US
https://www.xcontest.org/world/en/ranking-hg-open/
https://www.paraglidingforum.com/leonardo/flight/2761334
http://wxc.fai.org/module.php?id=22&date=20210405&gliderclass=hg1
12 topics in this article: competition, Davis Straub, Filippo Oppici, Kevin Carter, Larry Bunner, Paradise Airsports Nationals 2021, PG, Phill Bloom, Tyler Borradaile, Wills Wing T3, Willy Dydo, Zac Majors
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