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How Competition Can Up Your Game

by Bill Elliott • May 14, 2014

Some thoughts on why you should consider flying a regional contest and how it can make you a better pilot all-around.

by Bill Elliott • May 13, 2014

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.

by Bill Elliott • May 10, 2014

The first four days of May had some spectacularly good soaring weather in Norway. I spent the days at Notodden, where the longest flights in Norway were flown. One of the days four of the five longest flights in the world were flown by us!

by Bill Elliott • May 9, 2014

For the last few decades the soaring team of Klix has been organizing this competition for all gliding classes. As the WGC takes place this summer at Leszno in Poland, which is near by, a lot of pilots participated in the competition also for training reasons.

by Bill Elliott • May 6, 2014

After the incredible three years of soaring in the Western US, I must admit it took me a while to get back down to sea level and adjust my expectations to flatlanders’ soaring. I am truly missing those rough and snow-covered mountains and with more moisture in the air my flatlands sky is not as…

by Bill Elliott • May 5, 2014

On April 8th I had another incredible downwind dash starting in Wellington, KS. On April 2nd I had noticed on the long term prognosis charts that the 8th had potential to be a good soaring day in the Midwest.

by Bill Elliott • May 4, 2014

… and awesome weather in parts of Europe! This blog is a bit long, but there is SO much news. ENJOY it! Great weather, but also disappointing weather, comps and Nationals,… With a HIGH over the North sea the predictions for this weekend were more than hopeful. Yesterday it proved to be true, now in…

by Bill Elliott • May 2, 2014

On Sunday, May 4, I will be making another distance record attempt along with Hugh Bennett in the Duo Discus sailplane. Our intention is to be towed up by a towplane shortly before sunrise around 0530 PDT from the Minden Tahoe airport NV (KMEV), release and head in the direction of Rapid City, SD (KRAP),…

by Bill Elliott • April 28, 2014

The 2014 Italian 13.5m Class Championship, also known as the Leonardo Brigliadori International Cup, is currently in progress along with the Italian Club Class contest at the Alzate airfield in northern Italy. The event is aptly named after “Leo” Brigliadori, the much liked and respected competition pilot (16-time Italian National Champion, 1982 EGC Champion, 1985…

by Bill Elliott • April 27, 2014

The AZ Cup in Zbraslavice in the Czech. Rep. suffered on several days, from unstable/unflyable weather as did the Pribina Cup in Nitra in Slovakia as well as Fatraglide14. BUT they still managed to fly, though the weather was hopeless! The 3 comps in the East of Europe, were attended by 223 competitors in total and with…