37th World Gliding Championships
Szeged, Hungary July 25 – August 8, 2022 #USTeamHungary2022 MEET THE TEAM CONTEST NEWS VIEW ALL NEWS Contest [...]
12th Junior World Gliding Championships
Tabor, Czechia July 31 – August 14, 2022 #USTeamCzechia2022 MEET THE TEAM CONTEST NEWS VIEW ALL NEWS Contest Website [...]
US Team Captain’s Report- Ninth Contest Day
It was a great day for the US Team! Even with a late launch Daniel Sazhin and Tim Taylor turned in awesome results. Daniel won the day in Club [...]
John Good’s France WGC Report- Ninth Contest Day
A strange day today, with lots of struggle & outlandings, along with some very good US Team results. The forecast was for an unstable airmass, cool post-frontal temperatures and [...]
John Good’s France WGC Report- Seventh Contest Day
We at last enjoyed a day of fairly good soaring weather, which produced the longest tasks, best speeds, and best rate of task completion yet seen at WGC2021. It [...]
US Team Captain’s Report- Fourth Contest Day
After getting the new turnpoint file loaded and checked we attended to Pilots meeting which included the weather brief. The forecast called for an early start and we would [...]
US Team Captain’s Report- Third Contest Day
This morning was a busy one as the organizers issued version 2 of the waypoints files. They had to be loaded and checked. We had some equipment problems that [...]
John Good’s France WGC Report- Third Contest Day
Much more sun, but another day of short tasks, late starts and plenty of outlandings. Conditions were blue and very weak until mid-afternoon. At last the 15-Meter class (first [...]
US Team Captain’s Report- Second Contest Day
This is the second day of the contest but the first day of flying a task. As previously reported the task did not launch until 3:30 PM. Club Class [...]
John Good’s France WGC Report- Second Contest Day
A quick note today, as I’m just back from helping retrieve Sarah Arnold, who was among 22 Standard-class pilots unable to complete their relatively short task today. The forecast [...]