US Team Captain’s Report- Final Day
The 36th World Gliding Championships are in the bag! I am really proud of this Team’s performance over the last three weeks. Our pilots flew in very weak weather [...]
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- Contest Update
The last few days have had some lows, highs, land outs and International night. Friday, Saturday and Sunday all started promising some great soaring. Sunday turned out to be [...]
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 [...]
US Team Captain’s Report- Last Official Practice Day
Today was the last practice day. the day was cancelled at 3PM. Weather just didn't heat up and cloud base was low. We all did the grid swat for [...]
US Team Captain’s Report- First Official Practice Day
Yesterday the first Official Practice Day was a rainout. No attempts were made to fly. Today things were a bit more optimistic. The days have started out chilly in [...]
US Team Captain’s Report – Arrived in Montlucon
Everyone has arrived here in Montlucon. Tomorrow is the first day of unofficial Practice but our team will devote most of the day going over gliders, avionics and other [...]
US Team Captain’s Report- Traveling to France
We are on our way to France. Sean Murphy (15 Meter) and his Crew Paul Wheeden arrived a few days ago and picked up his JS3. Tim Taylor (15 [...]