For the second day competition, it was raining in the morning. We left our hotel at 8:20am and arrived at the bottom of Shashara Oreum in the eastern side of the island. This gigantic volcanic remain is more than 500m in diameter and 410m height.
We waited at the bottom until the rain stop at 11:45am, then we took the 40 minute hike up. Wow! They said it is easier than Ma On Shan, but I would say otherwise. It is really a hard work to hike up and down. Anyway, we arrived at the top and found out that it was covered with dense fog, so another waiting begun. Not until at about 2:30pm did the fog started to clear up. Then after problematic setup with some equipment malfunctions, we finally kicked start at 3:15pm. The first lucky pilot to fly is Allan Yeung. Well, he made it without problem although the slope had some cross wind and turbulence. We finally managed to complete two rounds at 5:30pm just before sunset. We were all happy and didn’t mind to walk down in darkness, ha ha that’s the crazy pilots we are.
Current top 5 ranking is
1 st : Stanley Chan, Hong Kong
2 nd: Haeryoung Hwang, Korea
3 th: Joe Sung, Taiwan
4 th: Son Kwonsam, Korea
5 th: Pang Yong Wee, Singapore
Fastest speed is 42:xx by Korean pilot
We expected to have lighter wind tomorrow so the best speed will most likely be kept by the Korea pilot. But we will do our best to get the top position.
In order to gain the lost time, we will get up early tomorrow morning and leave the hotel at 6:00am.
Foggy up in the mountain, so it is a waiting game
There are a lot of Fosa and Ceres from the Korean pilots. Buadis Model must have done a lot of promotion in Korea.