Up and flying... carefully.

That's it. 15 minutes later and 36 are in the air, just two more getting ready. The flying area is a cylinder of radius 17km and up to 7000ft so spotting aeroplanes is not easy. We saw 5 in the same thermal, high up and looking good from where we were.

Writing this an hour after the start of the task and many are back already, especially the autogyros which aren't very suited to this task. No sign of the 'sexi' one, yet...