How did it go? Got to the field. Wind was blowing from the right at about 12 mph. It was gusting hard. Only 4 guys out there and three of them were in no hurry to fly in the wind. Great! Thats my cue.

Takeoff, enter box. Vertical snap went well. 9 or 10. One turn spin. Oh no! I do about 1 1/8 (stopping myself from almost doing two). One spin goes really fast. OK circle. Wind pushing it past and pretty far out. No problem punch the throttle. OK back to center. Not too bad. 8 point up looks good, half loop good, neg snap down, looks great. Now roll, opposite 3 of 2, opposite 6 of 4, looks really great! Only problem is I'm out at 150 to 160 meters. Should I change and come in? No, I push it in on the radius. Not the right move. wings were off on the pull up. OK, pos snap. OK hammer head. Sloppy. Five of four down. Ok Tailslide. Push vertical, set up. Boy that wind is drifting hard. It backs down and starts to fall to one side. I save it and its through. Now the plane is drifting pretty hard, line at about 15 degrees off and try and do a pos 1 1/4 snap with the wind. Looks pretty ugly. OK Done. Vertical 8 loods great. Half diamond looks perfect. Avalance. Looks good but pushed the left side too much (wind drift). Full throttle on the back side to exit upright. Looks like a good exit. Push vertical down left 1 1/4 pos snap. Just OK. Exit upright cross box. Pull vertical 1 1/4 negative snap. Looks pretty good. Square loop on corner with pos snap. I decide to do the pos to the right, snapping in. Good decision. It helped wind correct. Second leg fine, third leg 4 point roll looks good maneuver complete. Sequence complete. I do a half roll, then another half roll then roll again before doing a half loop. Bad move. Should have just done a half loop with no rolls to exit..

After action report. The tailslide was the toughest part. I did it twice more before it came down just right, but the snap was still causing the line to be off 15 degrees. Just a tough one. Another thing that got me was the one turn spin. It was over before I was ready for it to really start. What else. Yes, got to work on rolling circles upright and inverted. Particulary in the wind. Biggest surprise. The rolling maneuver (roll, opposite 3 of 2, opposite 6 of 4) was one of the best presented and was easy to do it.

More you do it (memorize sequences and fly them) the easier they get.

Well. Time to pull out a different unknown and get ready to go through the same drill tomorrow...

See you,
Don