The Soaring Cafe 2014 Photo Contest is here. There will be a prize each month for the best photo as determined by vote of Café members. Cash prizes will be offered each month. Start looking through your photos for submission. Rules and entry forms can be found here.
Yearly Archives: 2014
Back to “normal”! Normal??? What about 26 x 1000 km. — plus in Europe!
by Bill Elliott •
Wow like the pilots and the organizers, I have to kick off a bit as well from this Sisteron SGP. You have to “bite” yourself into such a competition to share it, otherwise it doesn’t work. Perfect race , perfect winner and 20 TOP PILOTS giving us a great show. THANKS and CONGRATULATIONS to ALL pilots and…
Mifflin Airport Review
by Bill Elliott •
I apologize for the lateness of this post – I was tied up with repairing my wing wheel, and replacing leaky air tubing on my glider :-(. Anyway, here is my (personal, biased, and more than likely insane) take of the airports/airstrips in the Mifflin contest area. As always, if an airport/airstrip isn’t mentioned, that means…
Perry Days 1-5 post flight analysis
by Bill Elliott •
Day 8 @ Sisteron. Last Day of a Very Successful SGP! AND … the Winner is DIDIER!
by Bill Elliott •
Mr. Schempp Hirth on the Podium
by Bill Elliott •
Day 8 @ Sisteron; updated… 5 pilots in race to become WORLD CHAMPION, but first a wrap-up from day 7.
by Bill Elliott •
Announcement of 2014 WGC in Räyskälä, Finland
by Bill Elliott •
Day 7 @ Sisteron: “Pushing Hard Was Not Good Today”
by Bill Elliott •
What a great day again! Sometimes a bit scary, then exciting, then just unbelievable … how do they do it? Ingredients today: fast pilots losing in the end because they did not take good lift in between, police to help Bruce get away from the farmers land he landed in, pilots “written off” but returning to the lead! Here is the day for you if you had no time to follow it live. Enjoy!
My Most Memorable Flight
by Bill Elliott •
Memorable flights come in many packages. Some are memorable because they broke a record, others for beautiful scenery, still others were challenging due to the weather or interesting circumstances. By comparison, mine is memorable in spite of the usual criteria. It was not particularly fast, nor high, nor even unusually long. I can’t claim the typical…