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The 2012 Nationals are underway, with an interesting practice day yesterday. We have a good number of gliders flying this year with 25 entrants. Even the weather looks like it's not going to be raining for the week and a half which is a very nice change.

Practice day was good up north, although a little soft and challenging down south. Excellent climbs over the swamp as usual. Most did half the task and turned back early to avoid an exhausitng landout on the first day. Most except for Bill in his LAK however, who chose some lovely huge paddocks down Mangakino way to hang out in.

Today looks a little less exciting than we might have hoped for, however there might be some ridge with about 15 knots westerlies, so a task may well be possible.

All the results will be going on the Soaring Spot Website available at:
http://www.soaringspot.com/nzmnc2012/

The Central Plateau competition is underway in Taupo. The first day results and daily blog are available on soaring spot:

http://soaringspot.com/cpnz2011/

The XCountry Course and Regionals are approaching fast, starting on the 21st November first with the XCountry course, followed the week after by the Regional Competition. Both are at Matamata airfield.

For XCountry course details see here

For competition details and entry form see here.

Early bird pricing for the contest is available for entries in before 1st November, so enter early to save!

We also have the Kaimai Challenge on this weekend, so if you haven't done it yet, get in touch with an instructor, book a twin or a single, and plan to give it a go. It's quite acheiveable in either thermal or ridge conditions, and we may well have some westerlies this weekend.