Tag Archive for 2011 US 15m Nationals

No fly day yesterday at Logan

Yesterday was the first potential contest day for the regional, and the 2nd official practice day for the nationals.  The weather forecast from ‘Mike the Strike’ wasn’t particularly optimistic, so most nationals pilots kept their gliders in the boxes, but the regional guys had to assemble, grid, and then wait.  The problem was a band…

Practice day at Logan

Contest Website | Contestants | Scores | SPOT Tracking This was the official practice day for the regional, and the first of two practice days for the 15m nats, so we were all primed a great Logan day.  The weatherman told us we should expect blue conditions with some chance of clouds in the eastern part of the task area,…

Region 9 and Nationals

The one practice day of  the Regionals and first of  two practice days for the Nationals has started off sloooooooooooooooooooooow! Launch started at 1:15 and it was quickly observed that the lift was weak to non-existent.  Launch started and stopped and by 3:30 all who wanted to launch did.  Many landed soon back at the…

Pre-practice day at Logan

Contest Website | Contestants | Scores | SPOT Tracking Up with Tim Welles (W3) and his crew David at 0800, off to the airport to assemble, water, and grid. Snuck into the informal race camp briefing at 1000 to hear that we were going to have another day with brisk winds out of the south,…