June 25th Practice Day pre-launch

The morning briefing was started at 10AM and all 34 contestants were anxious to get started.  Most chose to fly today but a few of those experienced in the area decided to save their energy for the first scoring day.

The Sports Class has 15(!) contestants. the largest we've seen at these Region 8 contests.  I hope that means we're getting more interest in the the sailplane racing scene.

We have 5 new-to-the-area participants who recieved an additional briefing after the main one.

The grid time is 12:15 and the launchins started shortly therafter.

Mike Bamberg