What an amazing and exciting flight it was yesterday between Bruce and Nicolas. A farmer from the East Coast of Australia (NSW), used to flying over flat country, and an instructor from St Auban in France, used to the mountains and blessed with the skills to fly them. Loved it. They truly deserved the 10 and 8 points and showed how spectacular our sport can be.
10.30 AM; They welcomed us with the message that it was a sunny good morning, but windy again. Graham called yesterday ” a blustery gnarly sort of a day ,where I was tossed around as much as any flight I can remember, great fun though!” Giorgio ready to go to the grid. Courtesy Aussie team
At the recently concluded Bermuda High regional contest, TA’s wing wheel suffered an unfortunate encounter with a crew vehicle, and came off a bit worse for the wear. In the immortal words of scorer Rick Sheppe “every wing wheel ends its life by being run over”, and so it was with mine. The good news…
Some thoughts on why you should consider flying a regional contest and how it can make you a better pilot all-around.
It took quite a while before they knew who was the winner yesterday. Penalty points for a too high start … a too early start … a too low finish, all variations passed by. So I thought I’d better look tomorrow and I just did.
All photos by Tilo Holighaus It’s hard to ignore what’s going on at the Grand Prix Final 2014 in Sisteron these days: reading OLC Magazine, browsing through the Grand Prix website, and following Ritz’s great Café reports I try to keep up with the latest news. Haven’t tried the live tracking yet… but with three…
They started in Sisteron with day 5 and expectations were HIGH! First launch was at 1.20 PM and the expectation was for a day with thermals, ridge soaring, maybe even wave and maybe some showers–lot of ingredients to make the pilots happy, though the expected 25+ kt wind might be a bit of a “devil”.…
Did you expect Israel to be a soaring country? You should have a look into OLC’s yearly scores! You might be surprised to find about 50 pilots regularly scoring OLC points.
Looking back onto 40 years of gliding, my first flight in the swiss-made Archaeopteryx was not only very exciting, but an entrance into a new world of soaring.
At the recent Perry contest I was able to try the chute and it worked fine after a few small changes. Trish Drury was nice enough to make a series of very good pictures of the Concordia landing with chute deployment which was very helpful in sorting out the small issues. The Drogue chute is…
