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Tuesday - Logan Soaring Contest 2010 - Part 1 of 2

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Channel: Bruno Vassel · 2010 · Sports

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July 20, 2010 - Part 1 of 2 videos for this day. Second official day of the Region 9 Logan Utah soaring contest.  Today was a very weak ridge day with low top of the lift predictions, blue skies predicted with no cloud markers for thermals and weak winds around 8-10 miles per hour from the southwest making for weak but soarable ridge conditions.  

We all stayed on the Logan ridge and went back and forth until getting shot down off the ridge and struggling to make it home at the end of the day.  This video is of my second leg heading back south along the ridge racing against the very nice guy and fantastic pilot Bob Faris.  It shows our two different paths taken using the ridge and the results.  He stayed about 300-500 feet in front of the ridge and I flew right over it - at times a little too close for comfort while watching the playback.

I was a complete idiot and at the end of the day forgot to fly through the last mandatory turn point even though I had thousands of feet of altitude to spare.  I just spaced it and it cost me 290 points.  Yikes!  A rookie mistake that really hurt but one I hope I will now never repeat.  

Part 2 of Tuesday is video of near the end of the day scratching on the ridge just a few hundred feet above the farmers fields at the bottom.

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