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Sporting Competitions I attend, and their results
The Jerilderie 2008 LSF Tournament was held back in June, and I went down there with an expectation of flying well, and with a new glider to boot. I also went down to Jerilderie with some trepidation, given the disaster that occurred last year with my near-new Icon TD.
I drove down to Jerilderie from [...]
The 2007 Jerilderie LSF tournament will be an event I will not forget for a long time to come, for lots of reasons, one being that my TD Icon “died” during its first flight of the competition. That failure really capped off a very traumatic few weeks for me, actually.
I went into the Jerilderie [...]
I attended the Hunter Valley Championships on the weekend, competing in the Open Class Thermal Glider division, and flew some great flights with my trusty Icon. So much so that I ended up flying into second place, which was a huge surprise!
In 2007, I attended the Millennium Cup 2M Glider competition being held at IMAC, and came third, which was a bit of a surprise. It was my first trophy win since I started flying in this competition last year. Given the conditions on the day (strong breezes, some lift bands, passing showers, no [...]