The FAA have been a constant presence at Uvalde checking that the pilots have the correct documents to fly safely. At one stage we had 11 officials here for 99 pilots, quite a high ratio I think.At briefing yesterday Ken told us that he had calculated …
Bruce and Brad did well. David and I got together and started last, 10 minutes or so behind the winners. A low point just after the first turn slowed us down, then we had to go around a storm before heading off into a not quite “right” sky. As the task…
Hi Yaall,Finally an official day win after the unofficial one on day1!Had a great day [obviously] after a pretty slow one yesterday. Great start just behind a good group on a day forecast for possibility of storms which did not happen in the task area….
We are getting into a good routine here now and the days are starting to blur together. In the cool of the morning around 7am the crews water and Stage the gliders. Staging is a process where the gliders are positioned next to the runway, in grid order…
The guys are all out on task. And they are loooooooooong tasks. Over 600km for the smaller wings and 714km for Open Class. We have 1/8-2/8 of Cu and benign winds.We don’t expect them back much before 6.30 or 7pm.Tonight we are all invited to a party at…
Well, what a day! Very changeable conditions, from reasonable European style CU to rain-showers, then still glide to a turnpoint. Another good climb then another 50km glide through still air to an 8kt climb! Later the sky was a more normal Uvalde day. …
After a few nail biting moment with our Open Class gliders who had to cross a blue hole after rain I can report that all are home safe. The task unfortunately sent the 18m gliders into rain showers early and the Open gliders into rain at the end. The 1…
The 32nd FAI World Gliding Championship in Uvalde Texas has been billed as the Olympics of Gliding with 120 pilots from 40 different countries competing. All roads lead to Uvalde which is at the crossroads of two major highways. US90 runs East West fro…
Another South Australian day, if a little hotter.It seems that most of the 90 gallons of German beer was drunk last night and a lot of pilots are taking the day off including 4 of ours. They have only set a short task as we have the opening party…
Another hot blue day. It seems that practice days always bring on untypical weather patterns! Today only Tom is flying, the others are resting and a few small fettling jobs are being done. Tom is flying a set task of 470km. The sniffer just called 1.5k…
