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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
36th World Gliding Championships
Montlucon-Gueret, France August 4 - 20, 2021 #USTeamFrance2021 MEET THE TEAM CONTEST NEWS VIEW ALL NEWS Contest Website [...]
JWGC-Szeged: Closing thoughts from Michael Marshall
I finished the JWGC on a strong note. Saturday was our last flying day with reasonably strong but seriously blue conditions. I started with the gaggle and flew with the [...]
John Good JWGC Report 8/4-Contest Day 5
A challenging day today, with post-frontal weather that produced some very good lift and some difficult areas, with spreadout, light rain and then dead skies on final glide. In the [...]