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…
6.45pm All of final glide now, so now we wait for the results to see if they had fun :-)6.30pm Team Trotter 50km out6.15pm Tom and David on final glide at 80km. First finishers calling 10kmThe guys are all out on task under Cu with streeting – a classi…
Another dusty and windy Good afternoon from the WGC!It was quite a trip getting to the grid and back today, due to that same wind as yesterday that is busy picking up all the dust and blinding us. Against all obstacles, the launch went on safe and in g…
Another dusty and windy Good afternoon from the WGC!It was quite a trip getting to the grid and back today, due to that same wind as yesterday that is busy picking up all the dust and blinding us. Against all obstacles, the launch went on safe and in g…
15 m task updated!After carefully discussing, the WGC task setter group decided to make a chance to the task in order not to have too many pilots in one area at the same time – the first turn point has been eliminated:15m Class:LaPalomaGlassRanchU…
Rick Walters is on site now and we were chatting about 2012 WGC Speeds. Per Rick: “The fastest flight after 10 days of competition has been Peter Harvey’s. His speed of 161 kph on day 7 is the equivalent of Ron Tabery’s speed of 100 mph at la…
The weather man had initially predicted a 7pm finish, but later brought this back to 6:30pm. Alex reviewed the data and it looked like a possibility that the day could even be over by 6pm. We discussed for some time and came to the decision that the te…
Good morning! Countdown continues – Day 3 just starts in Uvalde for all of us.The staff of volunteers running the competition have a lot of surprises up their sleeve for the last 3 nights here – food, drinks, parties, prizes – stick around the big whit…
Yesterday a small area of moisture up the Rio Grande provided a local area of cumulus SW to NE over Uvalde. Farther to the SE it was dry and blue. Lift altitudes restricted competitors to generally less than 7000ft. through 16:00, thereafte…
