The weather sure hasn't been cooperating here in Lumby. It's been grey and raining all week so we haven't had a single task in since we started this past Sunday.

Today we were lucky to have no rain so we did another spot landing contest today and the Lumby Air Races put up a whopping $300 on this task...$150 for first, $100 for second and $50 for third. We also rounded up fifteen pilots to throw in another $10 on a side-bet - winner takes all...so there was $300 on the first place prize.

Brett went fairly early and set the pace doing a huge ground-effect glide in to the field. The local CH BC (Global) was out today with a film crew and Brett put on a great show disappearing BELOW the bull-rushes on the far end of the field and then popped UP and into the field and landed 19'1" away from the spot which was closer than any spot -landing from Monday. The spot was at least 200' from the bull-rushes.

I think I found my calling with this spot-landing contest stuff as I overcame the 'pressure' of Brett's landing and landed 7'4" from the spot which ended up winning of the day.

Dave Bacon came in later and beat Brett's distance by a mere 3". I talked Dave and Brett into putting their winnings back in the pot and allow everyone to go up for another crack at the winnings but no-one came any closer. It was good to see many more good landings today with most pilots not dropping the base bar to get a valid score.

The weather looks OK for tomorrow which is the first day of the Lumby Air Races and the last day of the Nationals...altho Saturday is reserved as an extra day for the Nationals as well.

We'll be doing XC tasks as well as more spot-landing tasks tomorrow. And the XC tasks are all centered around Lumby...probably no more than a 15km triangle. It'll just be a matter as how many laps we do around town.