Report for the GTA race at Monroe, GA August 23-24 A Class Cumulative Score Rank Points ID Name Glider 1 1999 FS Silva, Fernando ASW-27 2 1933 BZ Mittell, John ASW-27 3 1759 H6 Ruf, Chris 303 Mosquito 4 965 FP Pin, Francois ASW-27 5 915 DL Linnekin, Dennis ASW-27 B Class Cumulative Score 24-Aug-14 23-Aug-14 Rank Points…
Clubs & Sites
A category for Soaring Clubs and Sites around the world. Add something about your favorite soaring place.
Tullahoma, Tenn GTA Race – Day 3
by Bill Elliott •
Tullahoma, Tenn GTA Race
by Bill Elliott •
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…
Perry (Wagener, SC) Airstrip Review, Part III
by Bill Elliott •
In our last episode, we saw the melding of the Spartanburg and Perry airport/airstrip waypoints, the correction of old photo era turnpoint offsets, and other minor corrections. The result was a pretty complete and robust Perry waypoint database, which was then published in its various file formats as ‘Perry2014a’ on John Leibacher’s wonderful Worldwide Soaring…
Minden, Nevada Airport Review
by Bill Elliott •
Last September, I did a full review of all the Minden, NV waypoints, as my (now) normal preparation for flying at a new site. When it was done I had identified more than 20 airports/airstrips that I deemed ‘problematic’ in one sense or another (nonexistant, too narrow for 18m, brush growing on or near the…
Updating the Caesar Creek Soaring Club Waypoint Database
by Bill Elliott •
Perry (Wagener, SC) Airstrip Review, Part II
by Bill Elliott •
More Historic Videos from the Black Forest Gliderport [Video]
by Bill Elliott •
SOARING COUNTRY Black Forest Gliderport (1972) [Video]
by Bill Elliott •
This is a 16mm movie made at Black Forest Gliderport in 1972 and has been lost until I was sent a VHS copy. I digitalized and posted it on YouTube for historical purposes. Black Forest closed in 1985 and the original films disappeared along with the buildings. Little signs remain and the land is now…
Welcome to the MSE Gliding Club!
by Bill Elliott •
I had been planning for weeks that during the summer holiday I will visit the “Hármashatárhegy” airport in Budapest as I am interested in the work of other aeroclubs, their airplanes and the teams and also the popularity of gliding in the country. However, I was surprised when I realized that on Friday morning I…