Team Captain’s observations.After 16 days on end finally a break for me on today’s declared (and deserved) rest day.During all 7 practice days and the first 6 days of the contest we have had good to excellent flying conditions.Y…
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Nick’s day 7.
by Bill Elliott •
Nick, ST – Day 7, 11 AugIn bed by 6:30AM after an all night retrieve, and awake at 9:30AM with a slight headache, most likely due to dehydration. Only 3 hours of sleep; I definitely need some rest but today is not a rest day unfortunately, tomorrow is….
Nick’s day 6
by Bill Elliott •
Nick, ST – Day 6, 10 AugDr. Jack was showing heavy cloud coverage to the north by 2PM, but in contrast, the weatherman predicted a few CUs with chance of thunderstorms later in the afternoon. The task was set for the north first, and then south. As it …
Dave’s Day 7
by Bill Elliott •
Before the start, as I had climbed up to cloud base at 8300 feet, I saw a couple of gliders that were above cloud base out in the blue. The flarm showed they were 1500 ft above me, so out of curiosity, I went over and joined them and found about …
Contest luck factor
by Bill Elliott •
In some contests luck factor exist.
At the beginning of contest organizers set maximum start altitude to
avoid situation where some pilots will climb very high before start by
incident and have big advantage on others . But on request of some
countr…
Dave’s Day 6
by Bill Elliott •
Today was a long day 5:52 on task and landed at 20:09 for 117 km/hr over 692 km. I made it home, but was very slow as I had to take some 1 kt and less climbs at the end to get on final glide. It is better to get home slowly than not a…
XG Day 6
by Bill Elliott •
We had 692km task today. Start gate was open 13:56. Weather didn’t cooperate at first part of the task area . After one hour in to flight we knew that those who will be able to fly fast have chance to finish. For others it will be very hard with high …
XG -dusty competition
by Bill Elliott •
Since beginning of contest I had problem with instruments.
To find the problem I had to be at airport before 7AM as it was only
time when it was possible to do any work .
After flight it was to hot, in addition a lot of dust is blowing to our
parking…
Dave’s Day 5
by Bill Elliott •
Another jewel of a day in Uvalde today. There was a possibility of thunderstorms hitting the airport around 5 pm, so the tasks were set shorter today to give us a chance to l make it home before they hit. As it turned out, the storms were n…
Nick, Day 5.
by Bill Elliott •
Nick, ST – Day 5, 9 AugDue to the potential for severe thunderstorms to the north, we had a short 3 hr Area task with a 15 km finish radius in case Uvalde was under a T-Storm by the time we got back.I started early because of the T-Storm threat estimat…
