Good morning again with news from the last WGC 2012 pilots’ meeting!The focus today was on safety and on relating yesterday’s accident. As I already posted last night, yesterday afternoon we had a mid-air collision between 2 gliders: FB – Louis Bouderl…
Weather today is a little more uncertain. There is a boundary of unstable air mass lying across the northern task area. There is mid level cloud intrusion from the NW almost to Uvalde and greater instability in the sea breeze front to our S…
Ready for the last day of soaring at the 32 WGC here in Uvalde. The sun is shining and I hope the thunderstorms which I saw on the radar on TV will pass N. from us as they predicted!!!. Hope Dan tells us later at briefing that there is a nice window to fly in,…
Good morning on Day 13 at the WGC!Today is the last competition day and a moderate one as task lenght. Today is also the day we will know the winners and we will have the farewell party! A lot of things happening today.The weather presents a threat of …
Yesterday David and I tried an early start together to avoid the day ending too early. It didn’t work well, my result 20th, David’s 31st. Today I started with a fast group including the Jonkers and Ronald Termaat, Uys and Ronald got ahead of me in …
Well done SA pilots and crew, and take note you are with the best so it is not easy, but most of all enjoy yourselfs, that is when the fun starts and you will do well.
From the ground today, it looked like a classic Uvalde day. 8000 Cumulus bases, great Streets. Lots of smiles from our pilots at the end of their 620-680km speed tasks, finishing a little before 7pm. Most started just before 2:30pm with a 7 pm ET…
Nick, ST – Day 12, 17 AugIt was shaping up to be a good day, but a radio call from the team captain put an end to it. “The 15m task is cancelled. There’s been a mid-air. Both pilots are OK. Return to base”. It puts things in perspective as I had a glid…
Good evening from Uvalde’s WGC Day 12!It has been a long day here, as many of you can already imagine from reading the rest of the news. PC (Austrian team) and FB (French team) had a mid-air collision around 3 PM today. FB made a safe landing back at U…
A long 653 km racing task today that the winners completed in 4:08 at 157.8 km/hr. We started too early today at 14:11 while the others started around 14:21 and then caught us about an hour later. It is amazing what difference 10 minutes can…
