Tag Archive for 2011 Juniors WGC

JWGC Day 4 Update

Some preliminary reports of land outs have been announced, but Both Devin and Boyd are still flying. Things are bluing out all around as the dry airmass from the west is moving into the contest area. Ethan and I are waiting for their return doing laundry and playing ping pong at the French house near…

JWGC Day 4 – The Race is On!

Racing fans! Yes! It has finally stopped raining and we are in the middle of our first contest day. Launching 81 gliders in two different classes took 1 hour and 49 minutes, with one aborted takeoff from club class. The tasks are 320km for the standards and 270km for club class. There are a handful…

JWGC Contest Day 2 – Scrubbed

Hello Racing Fans, Contest day 2 of the Junior World Gliding Championships has been scrubbed. Today we are under the influence of a strong trough spinning off of the low pressure system centered north of the English Channel. We awoke to much colder temperatures and high winds out of the west – directly across the…

JWGC Contest Day 1

JWGC Contest Day 1 Overnight, the cold front which had been approaching passed through our area bringing with it heavy rains and wind, saturating the ground.  We awoke to much colder temperatures, very low cloud bases and moderate breezes.   Walking through the airfield is like walking on a wet sponge. The 1030 pilots meeting…

Final Practice Day at JWGC Musbach

Hello and welcome to Freudenstadt – Musbach, Germany, site of the junior world gliding championships. As I write this, we have gridded and the launch is on hold while we wait for the temperature to increase and the cloud bases to rise. Our pilots, Boyd Willat flying an LS-7 in club class, and Devin Bargainner…

US Team Arrives in Freudenstadt – Musbach

Yesterday the US team arrived at Freudenstadt-Musbach. We have spent the last day getting settled, recovering from jet lag, and praying that Continental Airlines will find and deliver Devin’s bags to the gliderport. Unfortunately, it appears that Devin’s bags never made it out of Los Angeles. The pilots, Devin Bargainnier and Boyd Willat have been…