I’m writing this from my camper at Seminole, having escaped from frozen Ohio for a sneak preview of the 2014 season. My excuse was the January running of Andy McQuigg’s Weekend Grand Prix race series, but really I was just finding it too hard to wait until the Seniors in March ;-). I started out…
“It’s no secret that small mistakes and inaccurate behavior can lead to incidents, accidents and even worse,…. fatal accidents.” So I start the new year of 2014 with a link to a youtube video, from a by now famous professor, who did pioneering work in Human Factors and SAFETY. He also is a best selling…
The German soaring community is delighted to find some first videos published by the master of long flights! Hans-Werner Grosse and his wife Karin are currently taking advantage of the long Northern German winter to put their video material online. The first movie is a 3-minute film without words showing the pretty and bright yellow…
Today (Monday Dec 30, 2013) is the last day of the 4-day 2013 Condor Xmas Cup, an online racing adventure in beautiful New Zealand. This is the sixth year of this world-famous soaring contest, hosted by Erik Praznovsky of Slovakia (http://www.virtualsoaring.eu). This year, 157 pilots from 27 different countries entered the event (Just as a comparison,…
Jackie Payne reports from Argentina Several hours after the biggest flight of the past year 2013, Jim’s wife Jackie found a minute (while her husband is busy completing another 2,100+ km flight!) to put down some background information to tell us more about that fabulous day. Jackie also provides a link to a YouTube video…
