"So far so good all NZ pilots doing the job well. This morning started cooler than anything we have seen to date around 22c with very little wind, lift was hard to find and stay in all our guys handled the difficult conditions well. It is now 3.30pm and the wind pressure has gone up to around 15-19 at 90 deg to this mornings conditions making flying difficult requiring a lot of down wind flying over trees with many aircraft either just scrapping back to the field or landing out in the trees with the obvious damage. One of the casualties landing out in the trees is Greg Voak from Australia and at this point they have not yet come back from the search for the model. Temp now is in the high 29-30 back to normal with around 20 kph wind pressure Scott was flying with Ballast in Barney so it is windy. You get to see some big wing bends in the Supras and the Japanese have just ritten a Supra off with a failure of the fuse boom just aft of the wing. Its now 7.10pm still trying to complete the third round. Currently all 3 NZ team in the top ten but given the variations in wind conditions and the number of mid airs in thermal mode that I have seen today this does not mean anything. Greg Voak found his plane 1.5 km down wind in a corn field fortunately undamaged. Dave Hobby has work to do on two models tonight as a result of two midair's, one smashing the tow hook mount and one with a big bite out of a main panel leading edge he has a lot of work for this evening. Current temp is around 27 and some of us are thinking about our jumpers. Left the field at 9.15 pm tonight with some very good news and one very lucky aircraft save. Sven in first Les in third Scott dropped out of the top 10 to 36 after a miraculous save that appeared to be radio interference going from the top of the stack in the setting sun to the bottom and only just making it back to the field, I thought my model was done for by a long way. As I have said previously this is very early days so don’t get two carried away down south, given the carnage of to day on day one I would expect to see only 60% of the planes entered still flying at the end, big winners and big loosers. The Aussies had a bad day today also as did the likes of Dyrall Perkins. It is not over yet by a long shot.
More tomorrow Paul Chisholm"
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