Chilbolton CHB – 20 pts
Salisbury SAL – 20 pts
Shaftsbury SHA – 20 pts
Sherbourne SHB – 20 pts
Crewkerne CRK – 20 pts
North Hill NHL – 20 pts

Then Didcot DID – 20 pts (Each Time)

Then ONE Turnpoint from Group 2 East

Calvert CAL – 20 pts
Stony Stratford STS – 20 pts
St Neots STN – 20 pts
Newmarket NMT – 20 pts
Thetford THE – 20 pts
Tibenham TIB – 20 pts

Then Didcot DID – 20 pts (Each Time)

Option to fly East first then West

Then Lasham or ONE (different) Turnpoint from Group 1

Etc

Scoring Parameters:

1 pt per kilometre
20 pts per Turning Point (but only when used as a Turnpoint)
30 pts Finish at Lasham

We were promised very good weather by our weather guru, David Masson, mainly in two areas; to the west as far as North Hill and to the east north of the London TMA to Tibenham. Paul Kite, the task setter, set a number of turning points in the two respective directions. The aim to yo-yo from one direction to the other via Didcot.
The weather lived up to expectations with 3 pilots exceeding 650k, 6 over 500k and 6 over 400k. Special mention went to Adrian Emck who flew 502.6 in his Ka6E. There was talk of very good thermals but some nasty gaps, a steady 9+ knots to cloud base was experienced by at least one glider. Both North Hill and Tibenham were reached with very few landouts or engine use.
Provisional results show Justin Wills and Andrew Reid joint leaders, 651k and 560k respectively but Andrew twigged the value of yo-yoing east/west so achieving 8 TPs against Justins 6. Paul Kite covered most distance 673k but failed to read his task rules and only reached 5 TPs! Final results will be issued shortly as there are a few airspace issues to resolve.
Total distance flown by 24 pilots was 10,554k.