22 pilots made the trip from Melbourne, Adelaide and Mildura to Horsham, Victoria for this new combined event.
The winner would be the Victorian State Thermal Champion for 2015-15 and the winning state (based on the scores of the top 6 pilots from each state) would take home the Model Flight Midway Cup.

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After terrible weather the previous Sunday, the 24th November proved to be a fantastic backup day for our competition. Fine, mostly sunny and with light to moderate winds.

The forecast wind direction was from south through to south west. Of course it was nothing like that. We had mainly easterly winds with a smattering of everything else. Thermals were sometimes elusive and sink cycles could be long lasting. To make things even more interesting the wind direction or strength (or both) could vary dramatically in the last minute before landing. Overall, perfect competition soaring weather where everybody lost some points due to the conditions. One pilot dropped out after five rounds due to some minor landing damage.

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Around 25 pilots made the trip to Wentworth NSW for the two day thermal comp held on 25-26 October 2014. A few arrived in time to practice on the Friday and had a get together that night.

On the Saturday we had really good, but occassionally tough and challenging conditions and that always makes for a good thermal gliding competition. It was pretty hot and sunny but the wind strength was never a problem. But trying too hard was for some and resulted in outlandings at great distance for a few.

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