On Saturday the 25th of October I started an 8 day International hang gliding competition based in Canungra. We flew 3 launch sites including Mt Tamborine, Beechmont and Flying Fox.
My team was Marty, Tim, Joel and Beau as driver. It was a great comp with many highs and some lows too. Joel won the floater class and I came 36th of 55 pilots. Jon Durand Jnr won the comp after missing day one due to illness. Full results are at: http://www.triptera.com.au/canungra/classic2008/results_page.htm
We had two days cancelled and flew 6 tasks.
Unfortunately I had a couple of bad landings which resulted in 2 brocken downtubes costing over $320. Making for a very expensive week.
I had some good flights and clocked up another 10 hours of airtime.
Flying Mt Tamborine with Gavin on Day 1
With Gav againVid with Gav over Tambo
On Flying Fox launch
Beau, Tim and Marty on Flying Fox launch
Big Trev and Tim on Tambo launch
Flying near Mt Maroon
Maroon Dam with fire burning in the distance.This was the path most pilots took on this day (to the fire). Unfortunately I had to land 4km short of Killarney, the first turnpoint. A great days flying though.
