15.30 update ; Interesting to see if pilots believe in the quick fast deteriorating weather or hope for a good run on the best hours of the day or even maybe “use” the weather. Anyhow in 18 m. class the gliders left between 14.03 and 15.10. Ricardo from Italy was the last to go…
12.15 ; The sniffer , Peter Alexander [below on the picture] is up in the air and with him in the back of the ARCUS, Andreea our young bright MEDIA LADY. Will have later hopefully nice pictures from ” above”. Nice clouds to the S. the SE and E. Left-over-small high clouds from this morning…over…
9.15 ; There seems to be a wide spread problem [ also the whole High School area!] with electricity this morning, so I have started writing in word as internet connections are not available as well. A bit of a problem for the vendors here, as they “make” Texas shaved ice and keep burgers in fridges.…
10.00 AM, from the HUGE garden of my tiny lovely house. Another fantastic day, here yesterday in Uvalde. We slowly need more superlatives to describe the weather here in Texas. Great distances and huge speed over 3.15 AAT’s.Look at this picture posted by the WGC team on facebook: The news and blogs on the official…
COMPLIMENTS to the HARD workers , specially the very young ones at the field! courtesy Frans Guise. 15.30 update: The wind sock “hangs”, the skies look fabulous like a REAL Uvalde sky, but it took a while before pilots went on track. Pilots reallly wanted to use the VERY- BEST- WEATHER -HOURS for their task today.…
It’s 12.20 and three tow planes move to the field. The sniffer will go up soon to see in the very blue skies, if there are any good dry thermals there. Chief steward Dick drives his yellow bike to the field as well. Sniffer on tow now at 12.30. 5540 MSL…. cu’s popping up in…
Tasks today are 3.15 AAT’s for all classes.And…a bit shorter. 15 m. between 388 and 587 18 m. between 394 and 636 open between 372 and 619. Grid time is 12.30 first launch to be expected at 12.50! Briefing is over .. The CD Ken called yesterday… “Challenging,” but…in spite of the weather, pilots showed…
8.15 ;GOOD MORNING! What a day yesterday! Pilots making it “home,” [ there were a few outlandings] were nicely in time before sunset ,but… some just a bit too late for speed points as they landed after 20.08, at which time the finish line was closed. So a very interesting and long day. In San Antonio to…
15.15 ; Coming back from town I noticed on the tracking system here that open class has passed the first TP already . Meaning that they flew 141 km and are on their way to TP 2 which is 150 km long. Mind you there is still 15 min. delay from the real time. Only at…
12.15 : The sniffer Peter mentioned only smal lift , so the first launch has been delayed to 12.40. NOW to 12.50! Sniffer is now at 3600 MSL! So start looks to be at 12.50. Some tuggies slowly walk to their tow planes. 12.35 : small clouds pop up now in the E.!Dan forecasted the…
