CXCC Day 1 & 2
Super busy here with running the comp and trying to fly as well so I'm not finding much time to blog but here is a very quick summery of the first two days...
The competition has gotten off to a great start. There are 54 pilots here and the first two days have seen excellent flying conditions with light wind and great climb rates. It was brutally hot on Sunday with temperatures in the low 100's but that didn't keep people from having great flights. On Sunday pilots were having climbs to 10,000 ft with 50 to 80 mile triangles being flown by many of the hang glider pilots and 40 to 50 mile triangles being complete by the top paraglider pilots.
Monday the temperature back off a few degrees. We waited on launch a bit longer for the day to start to develop but when it did, it was off to the races. Large cumulus clouds started to form and we were seeing climb rates of 12-1400 ft/min, 
topping out at cloud base at 14,000ft. The 30 mile leg from Farmer to Simms Corner was a fast, cold glide with a large cloud street lining up the whole way. Conditions started to overdevelop by late afternoon and shortly after we landed back at the Chelan airport there was rain, lightning and towing CUs out on the flats.
Standing as of day two:
Topless:
Tom Pierce 2495
Ben Dunn 2489
Larry Snyder 2176
David Gibson 1984
Bruce Bousfield 1896
Fiona Katay 1831
Darren Darsey 1674
Phil Bloom 1621
Konrad Heilmann 1608
Chris Smith 1554
Eric Troili 1425
Marty Van Datta 1391
King Post:
Jim Fennison 1456
Konrad Kurp 797
Tina Jorgensen 643
Sing Surface:
Joe Evans 784
Tom Johns 614
Paraglider:
Brett Yates 1569
Matt Senior 1111
Brian Webb 1048
Kendel Banister 606
Joe Sullivan 516
The competition has gotten off to a great start. There are 54 pilots here and the first two days have seen excellent flying conditions with light wind and great climb rates. It was brutally hot on Sunday with temperatures in the low 100's but that didn't keep people from having great flights. On Sunday pilots were having climbs to 10,000 ft with 50 to 80 mile triangles being flown by many of the hang glider pilots and 40 to 50 mile triangles being complete by the top paraglider pilots.
Monday the temperature back off a few degrees. We waited on launch a bit longer for the day to start to develop but when it did, it was off to the races. Large cumulus clouds started to form and we were seeing climb rates of 12-1400 ft/min, 
topping out at cloud base at 14,000ft. The 30 mile leg from Farmer to Simms Corner was a fast, cold glide with a large cloud street lining up the whole way. Conditions started to overdevelop by late afternoon and shortly after we landed back at the Chelan airport there was rain, lightning and towing CUs out on the flats.Standing as of day two:
Topless:
Tom Pierce 2495
Ben Dunn 2489
Larry Snyder 2176
David Gibson 1984
Bruce Bousfield 1896
Fiona Katay 1831
Darren Darsey 1674
Phil Bloom 1621
Konrad Heilmann 1608
Chris Smith 1554
Eric Troili 1425
Marty Van Datta 1391
King Post:
Jim Fennison 1456
Konrad Kurp 797
Tina Jorgensen 643
Sing Surface:
Joe Evans 784
Tom Johns 614
Paraglider:
Brett Yates 1569
Matt Senior 1111
Brian Webb 1048
Kendel Banister 606
Joe Sullivan 516
posted by Darren Darsey at 9:50 PM
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