Today is the first day of Official World Championships As usual during Worlds there is opening ceremony. We had parade trough the streets of Uvalde instead of walking we traveled very slow on the pick up truck to the local stadium where we had of…
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XG Practice Period
by Bill Elliott •
We are one week already in Uvalde.
I did 4 practice flights most of them in very challenging conditions on
the blue. I had opportunity to compare performance of my glider to
others and it looks that there is no difference.
There are very strong teams…
Nick, ST – Practice Day 7, 3 August
by Bill Elliott •
Today’s weather was not optimistic, with a late start and less than half of the pilots electing to fly today. My main goal was to get a full flight log for a new back-up logger. On release I couldn’t believe how much sweat was dripping from my hands. I…
Nick, Practice days 4 and 5.
by Bill Elliott •
Nick, ST – Practice Day 4, 31 JulyThe task was an assigned task of 545 km. The weather forecast was blue with thermal tops 9000 MSL.The 15m grid is behind the 18m today and my take-off spot is 71st. The launch started late and my take-off was at 14:21,…
1 Aug – Dave’s Practice Day 5
by Bill Elliott •
Conditions for today were blue thermals, except for a few wisps on the first and second legs. The task was a relatively short 3:15, so I had planned to start around 3 PM to get home by 6:15. Before the start, I had trouble finding an 18 m g…
How Do Gliders Get Here?
by Bill Elliott •
Some of the overseas teams shipped their gliders in containers to Houston and then had the containers delivered to Uvalde.The middle picture shows the Polish team’s container and the rack that was used to support the gliders. Some of these teams …
30 Jul – Dave’s Practice Day 3
by Bill Elliott •
Today was a great day. A 4:15 area task was called for 18 m with a nominal distance of 616 km. The task took us SE for about 150 km, then to the west and back north in to the hill country and finally a leg to the east in the hills before he…
Nick, ST, Practice days report
by Bill Elliott •
Nick, ST – Practice Day 1, 28 JulTechnical inspection at 11AM went OK, with no issues, except that I was 10 KG overweight on the scale, and had to dump. I’ll need to fill ballast with 10 litres less than calculated. There was still time to get on the g…
29 July – Dave’s Practise Day 2
by Bill Elliott •
I am not flying today, but both Nick and Jerzy are. It is a blue day here and the weather guesser suggested that lift should be in the 5-7 kt range up to about 7000 ft.Both the 18 m and 15 m classes have 500 km assigned tasks down to the south an…
Welcome Party and First Day Practise
by Bill Elliott •
We had first party yesterday to meet old and new gliding friends from around the world including Uvalde girls.Today we had first practice day . It was very demanding day as we had to assemble glider and prepare all before 9 am to avoid working in the s…
