Contest Website (15/18m) Contestants (15/18m) Contestants (Open Nationals) SPOT Tracking Well, I *think* it was day 4 today. Actually I’m very sure today was day 4, because I mistakenly gridded up my glider on the Day 5 spot today, and was roundly booed by the assembled multitudes – bummer. Up at the crack of dawn – nice overcast,…
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WE Report, Day 3 PWGC/UvaldeGlide
by SC Admin •
The weather continues hot–very hot. I wake-up each morning around day-break and head out to the glider. I am keeping it assembled since I do not have crew and this allows me to stay out of the heat as much as possible. At 7am, the temperatures are in the low 80’s. It takes me about…
Uvalde Day 3 Weather – 8 Aug 11
by Bill Elliott •
Weather forecast and subsequent report for Monday, August 8, 2011 by Dan Gudgel, weatherman for the Pre-WGC at Uvalde TX.
Day 3 at Uvalde
by Bill Elliott •
Contest Website (15/18m) Contestants (15/18m) Contestants (Open Nationals) SPOT Tracking Today was a fun, but hard day of flying. The weather forecast was for ‘a little softer than yesterday (yesterday was a classic Uvalde day), with less cu’s’. Well, as it turned out it was a LOT softer than yesterday, and the cu’s were literally few and far…
WE Report, Day 2 PWGC/UvaldeGlide
by SC Admin •
I must be getting old (54) as I can’t remember my flights like I used to. Rhonda Tyler (8H better half) often remarks, “It amazes me how you guys remember every thermal, cruise, bird, cloud, etc. — but, for some reason, you can’t remember to bring home some milk!” Yesterday was a fabulous Uvalde soaring…
Day 2 at Uvalde
by Bill Elliott •
Contest Website (15/18m) Contestants (15/18m) Contestants (Open Nationals) SPOT Tracking Woke up this morning in the micro-castle at 0645 – yuk! (have to get out early and assemble, water, and grid before the sun gets too high and starts to melt everything). No clouds, so I thought we were going to be forced to deal with another blue…
Uvalde Weather, Day 2
by Bill Elliott •
Dan Gudgel continues to provide us excellent weather briefings. His briefings are the best I have ever received. He is providing us with a forecast for the day with plenty of detail and explanation and he provides a trend analysis comparing yesterday to today. Finally, Dan updates the morning weather brief with his afternoon observations…
WE Report, Day 1
by SC Admin •
Day 1 is in the bag and I finished 3rd at 80 mph. Our task took us southwest and then north into the hill country to Junction. The weather was softer than the previous two days and was mostly blue. We struggled to get a reasonable start and then struggled more on the first leg. …
Uvalde Weather, Day 1, 6 Aug 2011
by Bill Elliott •
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Uvalde Day 1:
by Bill Elliott •
Contest Website (15/18m) Contestants (15/18m) Contestants (Open Nationals) SPOT Tracking I apologize for not getting a report out sooner, but the schedule here has been way too hectic for me to have the time to write a decent report. The combination of the additional administrative overhead associated with a pre-world meet, the introduction of FLARM units,…
