Today was the first area task for the contest after three days of racing task. The weather again was very good and only a few small blue areas to deal with. The task took us north into the hills, then SW to Carrizo Springs, SE to Callaghan, NE an…
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Nick, Day 4
by Bill Elliott •
Nick, ST – Day 4, 8 AugVery similar weather to yesterday’s, with a 4 hour area task today.There were areas again today with no or few Cus, that you had to navigate around or through. This can cause significant detours and wasted distance, such as 12 km…
Team Canada: Dave’s Day 3, 7 August
by Bill Elliott •
laterThe task to day was a 612.5 km racing task. We went south about 45 km and then headed well north into the hill country, in fact, as far north as I have ever been in Uvalde! Our most northerly turnpoint was about 205 km north of Uvalde, and …
Nick, Day 3
by Bill Elliott •
Nick, ST – Day 3, 7 AugA tough day for me. It seemed the boyancy/shear ratio was 3 not 9 as Dr Jack showed. You’d pull up in 6 kts and ended up in -4 half a turn into the thermal. Very broken and rough thermals all day. After a while I’d just keep goin…
American Team Party
by Bill Elliott •
We are off to the American Team party for dinner and will post the day’s flights when we get back. Briefly, I was 143 km/hr and Jerzy was 4 minutes faster. The last we heard Nick was 80 km south and headed for home. The sky stil…
Nick, Day 2
by Bill Elliott •
Nick, ST – Day 2, 6 AugWhat a day! The best, a 10.1 knot average thermal to 10,000′. The worst, needing a 1000′ extra on final glide to maintain speed and not finding it.There wasn’t enough wind to create the usual Uvalde cloud streets, so you had to n…
Dave’s Day 2
by Bill Elliott •
The 18 m task today covered a lot of our flying area, first we went north about 115 km into the hills, then 235 km south to put us 125 km from home at the final turn. The conditions were good, but not as good as Uvalde has to offer. My high…
Nick – Day 1
by Bill Elliott •
Nick, ST – Day 1, 5 AugA text message from the weatherman to the team captains, relayed by radio, indicated that the sea breeze front would be moving in an hour ahead of time. I decided not to delay and start early. I hit rain on the last third of the …
Dave’s Day 1
by Bill Elliott •
For the first day we were given a racing (or assigned) task. The 18 m task was 553 km and went east, then south, then up to the NW. I averaged 131.6 km/hr and that has me tied for 15th place with about 5 other pilots.The blue and red lines …
The Gang’s all Here
by Bill Elliott •
With the arrival of Joe Laposnyik last night, our team is now complete. Joe will be crewing for me to take a lot of the load off Virginia during the contest. We have three volunteer crew members:[ Joe, Dan Daly and Sonia Hildesheim who are all here to help support us, and they are all doing it on their own time and money!
