As promised, we have added Forums to The Soaring Café. We are proud to announce that the Forums are officially open! It is our hope that they will provide a venue to discuss topics of interest and engage in conversation as well as debate, but with a reasonable sense of decorum. We encourage everyone to…
It is time to start voting! The highlights of the Rules regarding voting are: Voting by registered Café members will determine the top 10 photos each month. Registered members can cast one vote per photo each day. You can vote for as many photos as you want each day. The Café editors will review the voting and…
Is it impossible to fly 3 hours? The diaries of a beginner woman pilot – mistakes and memories. I started soaring in 2013 and had my first solo in June. Looking back to this period in my life I was so happy that I reached my goal: I can fly a glider. Wow. But what…
As part of my 12-step crash recovery program, I have taken a solemn vow to never again go to a new soaring site without a thorough review of that site’s contest waypoint database.
A month or so ago I was finally forced to abandoned my beloved Dell Precision M6300 laptop running Win XP for a newer ride. I liked that old laptop so much I actually had two identical M6300 models so I could swap the hard drive from my primary to my backup (or vice versa) in case of…
The did it! The 701 km. task set at the Dutch National Championship was flown by 3 from the 10 participants in this class. Unfortunately “50 shades of grey” spoiled it for 7. What happened? The weather changed earlier than hoped for. After 3 in the afternoon various shades of grey covered the beautiful blue…
UK and Polish Nationals… Dutch Nationals with a 700 km. task today… Jena Cup… Hahnweide… and the birth of a baby girl!
The title is an exaggeration, but not by much. We have had 4 contest days here at Mifflin; two of them have been 4 hour tasks, and the ones that weren’t 4 hours were 3 and 3.5 hours. These are national-level tasks no matter what you call the contest.
Mifflin is internationally famous for its ridge days, and we typically get one ridge day per contest here. Well, we got one yesterday, but I’m thinking now it was a case of “be careful what you ask for – you might get it”. I’ve been flying here in contests for over a decade, and yesterday’s…
