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 [...]
John Good’s France WGC Report- Final Report
Today was a day much like many here, with a difficult forecast, small tasks, a late launch, and plenty of outlandings and low finishers. It was notable for Tim [...]
John Good’s France WGC Report- Tenth Contest Day
Another difficult day, this time with weather that actually beat the forecast. We awoke to low clouds and overcast, which most forecasts said would persist though most of the [...]
John Good’s France WGC Report- Rest Day
Another rest day today, due to a solid overcast of low clouds, predicted to last until at least evening. (And apparently different from yesterday’s solid overcast, which permitted flights [...]
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- Rest Day
It’s a rest day, so I thought I’d do a brief report on one of our favorite local food sources: Le 23, in the nearby town of Boussac. This [...]
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 [...]
John Good’s France WGC Report- Eighth Contest Day
Problems again today, this time in the form of a good soaring day collapsing sooner than forecast. All classes were given long tasks to the north (where essentially all [...]
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 [...]