Friday, June 15, 2012

Blue day - Day 3 of the Ephrata Regionals. AAT Task Waterville / Creston / Mansfield / Wilson Ck. I decided to play cautiously and stayed high. All went quite well until the 4th leg when i saw a huge dust devil forming up ahead and steamed off towards it at 90kt. Just as I got there it fell to pieces and I found only turbulence. I then had to glide across the ravine quite low but caught a nice climb at Soap Lake. Then my major blunder - my movable turnpoint was set pretty much over Grant County International Airport and I didn't realise this until I was about 10 miles from it.  I called them up at 5 miles and they told me not to proceed overhead but to turn for Ephrata immediately. I ended up 4 minutes early as a result. Doh!

Here's a nice shot of the Grand Coolee Gorge with Banks Lake. We fly over this at least once on most tasks. Sorry about the reflections!

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