[MT-ALES] Triangles Day 1

[Dean Musgjerd]

Overall it sounds like you are doing pretty darn good flying wise.
Equipment glitches are a real bummer. Maybe today will work out better.
Good luck.



On Fri, Jun 6, 2025, 7:22 AM CURTIS SUTER via MT-ALES <
mt-ales at lists.webworks.net> wrote:

> Day 1 is in the books.  Four rounds in great air.  I was up first and
> removed 3lbs of ballast and sure glad I did.  I finished only two laps and
> after crossing the finish line I turned downwind to land and at 36m hooked
> up with a thermal and was able to regroup and finish four more laps!  The
> air got good and then I wished I had the ballast in!
> That was good for a third place finish.  8 and 10 laps by the 2nd and 1st
> place finishers respectively.
>
> Round two was full ballast and did 12 laps for a second place behind 15
> laps.
>
> Round three, well GPS signal was lost which means I had no idea where to
> go.  Seems it thought I went halfway to Mount Shasta.
>
> Round four was rocking’ and did 11 laps for another third behind the top
> two finishers with 15 laps.  This time I had no Bluetooth audio.  I believe
> the field was saturated with frequencies and locked me out.  Ugh.  That was
> a challenging round handled very well by my helper.  I need a different
> Bluetooth audio transmitter.
>
> We’re staying in an airport hangar.  The wheat field around the airport is
> being harvested, starting at 2am in the morning!  Gonna be a long hot and
> very active air day today.  I believe I am 5th overall to some others with
> unlucky decisions and equipment issues.  The Alpina CS3 is flying superbly
> with no bad habits.
>
> Curtis
>
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