Tag Archive for competition

Florida Sailplane Grand Prix – USA

The Florida Sailplane Grand Prix has been designed to bring back the good old days of racing. Over the past few years, grand prix racing has been rapidly gaining popularity worldwide. Following requests from many sailplane enthusiasts, there will now be a series of weekend Grand Prix style races at Seminole Lake Gliderport in Clermont, Florida. This…

2013 Queensland State Gliding Competition

Once again Warwick Gliding Club is organising the Queensland State Comps in Australia. Come to fly in the beautiful Darling Downs area. Please go to our registration webpage and enter your info on the registration form. You won’t be disappointed !

Grand Prix Racing for the Rest of Us

This is a cropped but close translation of part of an article published March 27, 2013 in the OLC Magazine in German. “The argument can be made that traditional glider racing rules are such that spectator interest and involvement is near zero. Complex rules that are not relatable by the lay person and technical details that take substantial time to sort out delay daily racing results for hours if not until the next morning. Whoever comes home first from a contest flight is most likely not involved in the decision regarding the day’s winner.”

Chilhowee Cross Country and Team Flying Training Camp

99 Soaring Fans, This is Bravo Zulu   I am reporting from Chilhowee Glider Port, home of Chilhowee Soaring Association, http://chilhowee.com/   Like others,  I too doubted that the weather would hold good enough for a contest this past weekend, but I arrived Friday afternoon to prepare for the Region V contest and planned to stay over for…

2012 U.S. Open Class Nationals Update – Day 1

The winner for the day was the Arcus flown by Rick Walters & Pete Alexander. The task was to fly from Minden to Hilton Ranch to Benton and then a free turnpoint. They flew 283 miles at an average speed of 81 MPH. Rick reported that they were slow to make it to Hilton Ranch, as the conditions were weak, but after that it was good. Blue thermals all day, and they were never below 13,000 feet MSL. They continued to Boundary peak. He said the best soaring was from Mount Grant to Lucky Boy Pass.