Yesterday

Cirrus RCFK invited to "Winter F3J" at their field in eastern part of Norway. Bad weather forecast resulted in just 5 people showed up... And one of them decided to not fly. Because of the wind... Which was rather heavy. I think we had up to about 20 m/s in periods... and not below 10 m/s. But 3 of us sat up the winches with 1,45 lines on. And they snapped right of... Several times. I had no logger in my Crossfire today, but wow! Those starts... As we was down to 3 pilots after a short moment, (Alf Erik was not happy, crashing two planes in just a couple of minutes) there was no contest. But a lot of nice training of both thermal flights in very extreme conditions, and also a lot of fun speed flying in the heavy wind. Lost some parachutes during the day, when a line broke the parachute was drifting up to several kilometers in to the dark forest of eastern Norway...
But what a day! Even if it was no contest.

While waiting for

a long winter to end, some news maybe? ET-air has just released some news for next year, a cross-tail version of the well known Race-M.
And... I have ordered two of them! For the next season. Several years ago, I told Espen that if he got a crosstail for he's Race-M, I would order models from him... And as a man of my words, of course I had to make an order... Hopefully my new planes arrives in good time before next season. I plan to use them in both F3B and F3J. And I would also keep my Crossfire.