Weather today is a little more uncertain. There is a boundary of unstable air mass lying across the northern task area. There is mid level cloud intrusion from the NW almost to Uvalde and greater instability in the sea breeze front to our S…
Good morning on Day 13 at the WGC!Today is the last competition day and a moderate one as task lenght. Today is also the day we will know the winners and we will have the farewell party! A lot of things happening today.The weather presents a threat of …
Good evening from Uvalde’s WGC Day 12!It has been a long day here, as many of you can already imagine from reading the rest of the news. PC (Austrian team) and FB (French team) had a mid-air collision around 3 PM today. FB made a safe landing back at U…
A midair collision between two 15-Meter class gliders happened at around 15:30, about 30 km southwest of Uvalde. Loius Bourderlique of France (glider FB) was able to fly back to Uvalde and land safely. Peter Hartmann of Austria (glider PC) b…
The United States team operates at a disadvantage, compared to other countries, because United States contest rules specifically forbid team flying. Most U.S. pilots have not flown collaboratively with a teammate until they reach the world competition …
Stratus in the morning has given way to widespread cumulus with FEW sky covering over the the entire Uvalde tasking area. By 1530CDT some contestants were rounding the turnpoints in the Hill Country northeast of Uvalde. Cloud bases were around 7000 fee…
Good morning on Day 12 at the WGC!Today I had an earlier that usual start, delivering donuts to the weighing and ground operation crews. I was able to see these people working starting 7:30 in the morning and I will tell you all about it with pictures …
Wx. should be uniformly good over entire contest site with no significant threat of sea breeze intrusion. Launches a little earlier and probably blue initially, but good cu development later. Racing tasks for all classes using N. task area early …
Drying from the strong temperature inversion did indeed mix drier air and dissipated the morning stratus field around Uvalde. However, temperature forecasts right on-trend and thermal altitudes initially low just after launch. Around 1500CD…
For Open Class winner Oscar Goudrian (OG) of South Africa, Day 10 turned out to be the slowest winning day of this race, at 134.5 kph, or 83.6 mph. The fastest speed of the day went to Australia’s 18-meter pilot, David Jansen (4D), at 141.2 kph, or 8…
