Team At the US Closing Ceremonies Team signing thank you cards for our Sponsors John Good relaxing while Bob Fletcher enters tasks [s3video url="https://ussoaringteams.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/08/IMG_0549.mp4" width="350" height="350" autoplay="yes" /]
and Team USA is heading home. Here all captains pose in front of newly carved totem pole celebrating WGC2016. Other totems celebrate previous World or European championships. The German [...]
The final scheduled day of competition at WGC2016 unfortunately didn’t happen. With bright sun in the morning we were surprised to receive an announcement that gliders should not be assembled [...]
For pretty much the first time during this contest, Pocuiani enjoyed a beautiful morning and a brilliant weather forecast. The air was clear and crisp (overnight low was around 43 [...]
Today began with more grim weather – and a near riot. I’m happy to say that both situations saw improvement by the end of the day. After substantial overnight rain, [...]
Finally, beautiful weather with streets all the way to Poland. See picture attached. All gliders on task: Club – 396km Standard – 460km 20 meter Multi seat – 461km
Morning weather fooled us today: we awoke to sun and mostly blue skies. But clouds quickly marched in and all forecasts said to expect much more. They were correct: thickening [...]
After 100% landouts on August 9, I messaged Captain Fernando Silva because of the low number of points scored AND because Soaring Spot was indicating zero points for all of [...]
This was perhaps the toughest day yet. It involved assembling, gridding and launching 110 gliders (more than a few multiple times) only to see every one fall to earth in [...]
Another struggle with weather today, this time moderately successful. Wind was forecast to be a big issue: it would be southwest and strong all day. Tasks had all classes headed [...]
