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Tullahoma, Tenn GTA Race – Day 3

I’m writing this from the comfort of my home office back in Columbus, Ohio.  I got home about 3am Ohio time this morning, after an uneventful drive back from the Tullahoma.  We got in a 3rd day on Sunday – a 2hr TAT.  Conditions were variable – OK to very good to the north of…

Tullahoma, Tenn GTA Race

I’m sitting in my Micro-Castle here at the Tullahoma GTA (Georgia-Tennessee-Alabama) race site, on Saturday July 5, waiting for my brain to wake up and smell the coffee.  Tullahoma regional airport (KTHA) is a great soaring site, with lots of ramp space for assembling gliders, huge runways with at least two separate grass runways, and a…

Tullahoma, Tenn Contest Database Review – Part II

Following the procedure developed during my Perry airport review (see https://soaringcafe.com/2014/03/perry-wagener-sc-airstrip-review-part-ii/), I started by importing the 2014 ‘tullahm1.csv’ file (Comma-separated-variable) into Excel.  I prefer using an Excel file because Leibacher can handle it directly, and because there is a converter(https://www.earthpoint.us/ExcelToKml.aspx) that can convert a properly organized Excel file to KML, which can then be viewed in Google…

Tullahoma, Tenn Contest Database Review

As part of my 12-step crash recovery program, I have taken a solemn vow to never fly at a new soaring site without first having thoroughly reviewed the contest waypoint database for that site.  I want to determine, to the extent possible using my feeble brain and Google Earth, whether or not the landing places…

Eagleville, TN Airstrip Review

As part of my 12-step crash recovery program, I have taken a solemn vow to never go to another soaring site without first having done a thorough Google Earth review of all the airports/airstrips in that site’s waypoint database.  Never again will I arrive at an ‘airstrip’ waypoint only to discover that it can’t be…

Southern Eagles Soaring Hosts GTA Race 2

​The second race of the Georgia-Tennessee-Alabama (GTA) race series was hosted by the Southern Eagles Soaring club at LaGrange, GA (LGC) airport on April 7th and 8th. Compared with the first GTA race held on March 24-25 at Quitman, GA (see the report by Lane Bush), the weather was very favorable with blue skies and…