Air Sailing Day 5 - the final day

Today they set a TAT (AAT) of 2.5 hours, so we'd be back in time for the 'banquet'. It was another great day, and I was very lucky to get away with a win - I made a major screwup. Yesterday my Cambridge C302 control knob broke so I could click it but not turn. As a result I couldn't adjust the altitude, volume, MacReady, etc so I took off with the altimeter reading 400ft high. After making a start out the top of the cylinder (through 10,000ft) , I spied a row of clouds forming in line with a different part of the start cylinder, and because it was early I decided to go back, drop below 10,000, and restart. Allowing for the 400ft start height discrepancy I dropped down to 10,200-10,300 for the requisite 2 minutes and then started through the side of the cylinder heading straight for the cus. From then on the day worked well and I had a blast. However somehow my track log showed me being just above 10,000 for some of the 2 minutes  I thought I was below. This was a 250pt penalty but I was fortunate that I had the earlier start, 12 minutes prior, which I was granted. That dropped my overall speed from 84 to 79mph but it was still enough to win the day (just).

Hi from Al & Dave at Air Sailing, Nevada

So that's it for the contest part of the trip - from now on we will be doing some flying but more touristy things for a while.