Sit back and enjoy 42 uncut minutes of fast low mountain racing in Wyoming’s Salt River Range taken during the 2011 Logan 15-Meter Nationals. This is not the regular YouTube soaring video with lots of short video cuts edited to music, but shows advanced mountain racing averaging well over 120 mph continuous ground speeds. Just tell your boss that you need to take a 42 minute break today…hope you enjoy!
I disagree with Frank Payter’s pessimistic view of the 2011 Logan contest and especially with a pessimistic view of this site. I’m not a “local expert.” These are just my views based on flying half of the nationals there. Overall, Logan is a very promising site. It has good weather, a good task area, a…
A few days after the Logan Nationals were over, I had a chance to write down some thoughts about how I thought contest organizations are supposed to work in general, and the contest organization at Logan in particular. At about the same time, Mike Shakman (SH) cc’d me on a very cogent and insightful letter…
Contest Website | Contestants | Scores | SPOT Tracking Today was the last flying day of the 2011 15m Nationals at Logan. The weather and the task was pretty straightforward for once, with the exception of a slow start to the thermals on the Logan ridge off tow. The slow start problem was (mostly) solved by using 3000′ agl tows vs…
Contest Website | Contestants | Scores | SPOT Tracking I’m normally crewless (and clueless) at regional competitions, but I try to have a crew at nationals. Having a crew makes a huge psychological difference, especially in a physically demanding contest like this one has become. This year I was fortunate to have a great crew here in the person of Mark…
Contest Website | Contestants | Scores | SPOT Tracking This morning we were awakened by the ‘Osprey Reveille’ at about 0630, after a whole 5 hours of sleep. The micro castle is in an RV park more than a mile from the airport, but somehow the noise from the Osprey’s main rotors when they start their testing program in the morning…
Contest Website | Contestants | Scores | SPOT Tracking First, my apologies for not getting this report out earlier – I know there are many who depend on these reports to follow the action. I can only say that by the time I got home last night (about midnight), I couldn’t even find my bed, much less my keyboard ;-). Yesterday…
The weather continues to be fickle and is making the task advisory committees job more difficult. The monsoon moisture is to the SE but pieces, plumbs or ‘who no whatever else noun could be used’ to describe the moisture that being observed around the Logan airport. The task advisory committee and CD wants a non-devalued…
The day started great with quick climbs at the start and fast runs on the first leg to the Tetons. We were watching the radar and saw cells starting to develop over Preston in a line from there to Afton. We could see the big cells at Preston and thought either it was really good…
The monsoon moisture has moved to the east of the task area leaving partly cloud skies, good looking soaring conditions and soaring models that support a long challenging task. The eighteen pilots were assigned the task of 15 Meter Class Tue. Jul 26, 11 15 Meter Nationals Logan, UT Turn Area Task ID Name Distance…
