It’s all over now and we are all heading home in various directions by various means. Gliders are being towed to ports for shipping and returned to their owners in the four corners of the USA. Our team is dispersing back to Australia and the USA, …
Well, I made some bad decisions yesterday, started just behind Jerzy but went a very different path – Jerzy beat me by over 20kph. By far my worst day and so dropped down to 10th overall. A bit disappointing as a reasonable day could have brought me up…
5.55pm All back so time to take down the aerial, and check Brad’s back up logger to see if we can loose his finish height penalty.5.30pm Overheard on the radio “Well done Champion” so someone knows how today went. 2 more home, just waiting for Tom and …
Storms forecast for this afternoon. ;)3 places to re-gain today. The 3hr AAT is well set with room to move re storms.Everyone shaken by the mid-air yesterday, thankfully the pilot who bailed was OK.Suprised we have not had more the way some of these gu…
Yesterday David and I tried an early start together to avoid the day ending too early. It didn’t work well, my result 20th, David’s 31st. Today I started with a fast group including the Jonkers and Ronald Termaat, Uys and Ronald got ahead of me in …
From the ground today, it looked like a classic Uvalde day. 8000 Cumulus bases, great Streets. Lots of smiles from our pilots at the end of their 620-680km speed tasks, finishing a little before 7pm. Most started just before 2:30pm with a 7 pm ET…
Since this is being widely reported elsewhere and to reassure everyone ….There has been a mid-air collision between two 15m gliders on task. Both pilots are fine. One landed back at the field and one bailed out.Australian pilots are not involved and …
Mmmmmmm – a new cunning plan today ….
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…
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…
