Team USA Report – JWGC Contest Day 12-13
Contest Day 12 The penultimate day of the contest – and our 9th flying day. We were treated to cumulus fields again today with drying from the west later in [...]
Contest Day 12 The penultimate day of the contest – and our 9th flying day. We were treated to cumulus fields again today with drying from the west later in [...]
Contest Day 9 Today was scrubbed due to a front approaching from the west that brought with it thick high level overcast and light rain. Although conditions were blue during [...]
Contest Day 7 Today dawned with the promise of a good thermal and cumulus forecast but with the specter of high and mid-level cloud cover during the [...]
Contest Day 6 Contest day 6 task was a massive Area Task with a minimum distance of 460km even for club class. Maximum standard distance was over 800km! [...]
"An amazing soaring day yesterday.Jim and I started together and had a very long glide under fairly overcast skies to clouds well to our south. Luckily, we had plenty of [...]
Possibly toughest day I’ve ever flown. Made it 260 km at about 55 kph, only needed about 700 ft of climb but just couldn’t find it under the overcast and [...]
This is day 3 of the bad weather. We had a Team meeting last to discuss events, strategy and basically get a feeling that we are still at a soaring [...]
The past three days have been cancelled due to weather. There has been a low slowly moving from the west causing fits with the weather. Yesterday we mad an attempt [...]
WGC 2018 real racing is about to start. All the practice, registration and scrutineering are done and the US Soaring Team is ready to go. The past few days have [...]
The boys had a rough go of it today as they got hung up in the second turn. Their team flying continues to be exemplary, and it’s a very long [...]