Waitangi weekend Monday.

The Waikato pilots who were still keen after Sunday headed to Al's hill as the Kaimais were looking windy. I took off first and managed to bomb out after 3min. Mark took off next and climbed out and away with Bruce following soon after. Then Nick off and Helene followed but unfortunately they joined me. Russel managed to take off get high and head toward Paeroa. Now it was re-flight time, after a long slog up the hill I relaunched and managed to finally get away and head east.

Mark Tulloch who also braved the walk up the hill launched had a good flight and ending up landing close to his car. Everybody else who was keen had a second flight and a great day was had by all. A big thanks goes to Mark for the ride from Cambridge. Bruce and Chrissy for the ride up the hill, and a big thanks to Nick for the retrieve from Waihi beach. These long weekends are awesome we should do them more often!

This weekend at least 5 New PB's were set and over 545.1 XC km were flown around the Waikato.

Waitangi weekend

Sunday.

The crowds gather.

After the forecast not looking to crash hot on Saturday the Waikato pilots were chomping at the bit to fly some XC kms. The call was made to head to the Kaimais and what a cracking call it was. The day was forecast to start out windy and drop off around 1pm.

Go Dom!

Kinda waiting to unleash awesome

The XC guns were keen to get airborne and Mark Macdonald lead the charge and headed down range virtually straight away. Once everybody had seen the it was on there was a rush to launch. The day turned blue as forecast which made it just that little bit more rewarding after finding that next climb. Everybody had an awesome day and at least 4 Personal Bests were set. It was great to catch up with everybody hope to see you all in the air tomorrow.

It was great to share the sky with the hang gliders. Thanks for marking those thermals for me

Thanks for the Pic Dom.