99 Soaring Fans, This is Bravo Zulu 7 September 2012 Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday were flying days. So the camp was completed as planned. Cloudy mornings preceded clearing to partly cloudy by 1300. Wednesday and Thursday could be characterized as challenging since the ceilings were below 4000 feet MSL and the thermals were generally light. …
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Chilhowee Cross Country and Team Flying Training Camp
by Bill Elliott •
99 Soaring Fans, This is Bravo Zulu I am reporting from Chilhowee Glider Port, home of Chilhowee Soaring Association, http://chilhowee.com/ Like others, I too doubted that the weather would hold good enough for a contest this past weekend, but I arrived Friday afternoon to prepare for the Region V contest and planned to stay over for…
The Blue Ridge Soaring Society is Celebrating 50 years of Soaring in New Castle, VA
by Bill Elliott •
Mark your calendars now for the 1st weekend in September! Try to arrive by Friday evening, August 31st and plan to fly on Saturday, Sunday and Monday, weather permitting. We have a “Remember When” program planned for Saturday evening following a fun relaxed cookout with all the picnic fare. There’s a special brunch planned from 10:00-11:30…
June at the Yorkshire Gliding Club
by Bill Elliott •
As an introduction, the Yorkshire Gliding Club (YGC) was formed in 1936 at Sutton Bank in North Yorkshire, from the amalgamation of a number of smaller local clubs. The hill top site, with a claim to have the best view in all of the UK, has authenticated records of gliding activity from 1906 and today boasts a well-established gliding club that operates all year round except on Christmas Day.
Bloemfontein South Africa Report, Flying Day 13 (last) – December 4
by Bill Elliott •
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
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Flying Day 9, November 30
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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…