Mike Westbrook-Contest Day 5 Ostrow
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 [...]
On Your Marks!!
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 [...]
US Team Camp News – May 30
This week in Cordele, Ga., the 3 members of our Junior International Team are honing their skills with other current, previous and hopeful US Soaring Team members. JP FROM [...]
2016 Junior Camp and Contest Summary
July 9, Practice day 1. The soaring day was relatively good with single-seat pilots doing practice flights and the beginning of the mentored two-seat flights in the [...]
Challenging Wx.-Lessons to be learned
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 [...]
August 7: To fly or not to fly???
Mike Westbrook captured these shots on a contest day that was not to be. All were gridded and ready to go??!!!! The Club Class was launched and task opened [...]
Competition Day 4-Will there be a “shake up” with the scores?
A sunny day emerged in the am hours, but multiple landouts could shake up the leaderboard. Mitch Hudson snapped this pic as he left the airfield for his pilot; [...]
John Good report – August 4 (updated)
Another non-flying day today, due to a weather pattern pumping lots of moisture into Europe, producing a solid overcast predicted to persist until evening. We have updated information on Larry [...]
Day 2 from the Club Class Guys
"Terrific evening sky after Day Two here in Pociunai. Great Team Flying with Mike Westbrook from start to finish." Tim McAllister "Day 2 for the US Club Class Team [...]
Mückenputzer
"Sailplane wings are designed to be extremely efficient but the smallest amount of contamination from bugs or rain can degrade the performance up to 10 points.... In areas [...]