As I said on Tuesday, the forecast for Wednesday was vaguely promising, with a trough looking like it would sit very close to us but potentially far enough away that it wouldn’t cause too many problems. Over the past few days though, this trough’s forecast position changed to the point where it now looked like it…
Tag Archive for 2012
OLC League on Memorial Day Weekend
by Bill Elliott •
The U.S. Memorial Day weekend was a good one for many OLC League participants. Here are the League standings as reported in the May 30th edition of the OLC Magazine. U.S. Gold League 6th Round: (1) Seattle Glider Council, (2) Soaring Club of Houston, (3) Greater Houston Soaring Total: (1) Albuquerque Soaring, (2) Southern Sierra,…
Southern Eagles Soaring Hosts GTA Race 2
by Rand Baldwin •
The second race of the Georgia-Tennessee-Alabama (GTA) race series was hosted by the Southern Eagles Soaring club at LaGrange, GA (LGC) airport on April 7th and 8th. Compared with the first GTA race held on March 24-25 at Quitman, GA (see the report by Lane Bush), the weather was very favorable with blue skies and…