Simulation-based training offers a dynamic and risk-free approach to learning complex skills and procedures. Whether training to be a surgeon or maintaining proficiency as an airline pilot, simulation-based training is [...]
In a recent conversation, SSA vice chair, Geoff Weck provided an update on the Junior Committee’s grant and scholarship program. As with many other activities, the program slowed down during [...]
Weather was good today – perhaps a bit better than forecast. Tasks were – as expected on the final day – moderate: 3-hour Area tasks for all classes. All US [...]
A difficult day with long tasks, more than half of which were not completed. The forecast was for decent lift under cumulus clouds that might dry up by late afternoon. [...]
WGC2025 enjoyed its best weather of the contest thus far – though you could be excused for not expecting this based on morning forecasts, and indeed not until pilots were [...]
A decidedly better forecast today. The front that brought rain has wandered off well to the east, leaving Tabor with cool temperatures, sun, and moderately unstable air productive of thermal [...]
We awoke to a sky full of low clouds and light rain. It did not look like the start of a soaring day, but forecasts held out hope of [...]
Today was a strange one. Forecasts agreed that an approaching front would at last sweep away the awkward airmass that has been troubling us for the past several days. As [...]
It’s a non-flying day for the 39th World Gliding Championships at Tabor. Forecasts called for another weak blue day: not actually unflyable, but probably lower & weaker than the previous [...]
Friday the 13th at WGC2025 was a day much like 12th: often weak thermal lift to moderate altitudes in a cloudless sky. Today featured Area tasks, perhaps with the hope [...]
