Brasilia Day 1
Today was the first day of the Brazilian Nationals with 70 pilots in the comp we were in for a good week of flying. Brasilia was off to its usal weather with puffy clouds filling the sky as far as you could see.
They set a short 101km task with 2 turnpoints bringing us into the Esplanada for the most majical goal in the World. I started in the valley up high with Dustin and a few others and raced off down the ridge to the Waterfall.
I was leading out and finding good thermals with Dustin, then we decided to cross onto the platau while some others continued on down the ridge. We got a good climb and topped out at 2800m just before the forest crossing. We glided under a cloud street all the way to the turnpoint and then headed back for the second turnpoint crosswind.
Dustin and I were tip to tip gliding back for the second turnpoint to a big cloud. We hit a strong 900fpm climb to 3,000m 2.5kms from the turnpoint did the last turnpoint side by side and now had a 30km final for goal. We were picking different lines the whole way and we kept meeting back up almost side by side at the same alttitude.
Cloud streets along the course line. Just another typical Brasilia sky.
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