Prescott Final Day

Our last day of briefings included all of the detail about flybys, a safety presentation focused on density altitude and an outlook weather briefing. 

This year the teams will again all be carrying Bad Elf trackers and Spot devices. The Bad Elf trackers are gps units used to mark distance and time to assist in calculating our speeds and scores. The Spot is for tracking our location.

Also this year the teams can easily be tracked using mapprogess and listening to the flybys can be streamed via liveatc.net

Links to both of these can be found on the Air Race Classic webpage. 

Follow our track and listen to the radios.

http://www.airraceclassic.org/

This evening a surprise notice by email caused great concern.  A microburst hit the airport and each team was asked to report to the airport to inspect the aircraft. With little time to spare before darkness we went out feeling a bit nervous. Thankfully there was no visible damage. The plane had obviously shifted on the chocks but everything seemed a-ok. The sunset was beautiful.

We are off to sleep with great anticipation of tomorrow's flying.