After the Junior Pre-World Contest in Leszno, Poland ended on Sunday 12 August, the Dutch competitors (Jan Willem van Doorn, Stefan Telkamp, Sander Luimes en Nick Hanenkamp) decided to fly back home to Holland on Monday 13 August. They almost made it: Their flight ended at Stadtlohn airfield which is located virtually on the border between Holland and Germany. They covered a distance of almost 700 km, an epic flight!
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GP:Live App—WGC 2012 Edition Up and Running
by Bill Elliott •
GP:Live allows you to follow WGC 2012 in near real-time. You can see who’s where and how your pilots are doing relative to the other competitors. It also features the latest contest news snippets and commentary, all conveniently on one page.
FAI Receives More European Record Claims
by Bill Elliott •
On August 3rd, the FAI received the following Class D (Gliders) European record claims. The Soaring Café congratulates pilots Guy Bechtold of Luxemburg and Laszlo Hegedus of Hungary on their outstanding flights!
Flying Day 12, December 3
by Bill Elliott •
Another blue day with few or no clouds in the sky. We flew a big task – 498 km from New Tempe to Greylingsdrift, over to Kroonstadt, to Bultfontien and return. I managed the task in about 5.5 hours and OLC optimized my distance at 512 km. I had difficulty on the second leg and…
Flying Day 11, December 2
by Bill Elliott •
It will help to understand today’s flight if you scroll down to the Introduction section below and look at the map of the 3 controlled airspaces. Essentially, 3 of us (myself, Ed Downham and Anders Anderson) flew a task clockwise around the Bloemfontein TMA and down the narrow corridor between that and the TMA to…
Flying Day 10, December 1
by Bill Elliott •
Storms in the area so a rest day for most. I took a 1.8 hour local flight and went out to look at some landing places. Came back as a storm came in. Tomorrow should be a good day.People think that “flying in Africa” is like looking down on jungles and rhinos. It actually looks…
Flying Day 9, November 30
by Bill Elliott •
The confusion continued about the weather and so we decided on a 316 km triangle racing task that would keep us all reasonably close to the airport. However, several of us saw that conditions were better looking toward the second turnpoint so 4 of us decided to do the task in reverse order. It was…
Flying Day 7, November 28
by Bill Elliott •
After yesterday’s surprise storms none of us were very confident about the weather forecast and so the task today was designed to keep us reasonably close into the airport if storms developed again. I selected a 500km task from New Tempe up to Christiana, and then down to the diamond mine at Koffiefontein. At the…
Flying Day 6, November 27
by Bill Elliott •
We thought that today would be a great day so we had our pilot’s meeting an hour early with most of the gliders on the grid by 9:00 am. I declared an FAI type 750 km triangle (no leg less than 28%) with turnpoints at Klerksdorp and Reivelo. Each leg was about 255km. I launched…
