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31Aug, 2024

Team USA Report – 2 World Champions!

August 31, 2024 We have two World Champions! At the 38th World Gliding Championship, Karl and Sarah today prevailed in the 20-Meter Multiseat class. They are the first US champions in an “unrestricted entry” World [...]

30Aug, 2024

Team USA Report – WGC Day 11

August 29, 2024 Better weather today – a return near to genuine Uvalde Weather. This began with a low overcast – note a good sign at most soaring sites. But here, strong sun breaks this [...]

29Aug, 2024

Team USA Report – WGC Day 10

August 28, 2024Difficult weather today: excessive atmospheric moisture continues to cause trouble in south Texas. Today it gave us extensive low morning cloud that broke into useful cumulus, which promptly overdeveloped, yielding areas of rain. [...]

28Aug, 2024

Team USA Report – WGC Day 9

August 27, 2024 Uvalde weather took a troublesome turn today - a continuation of this week’s trend: lower temperatures and much more moisture. We awoke to cloudy skies, which can be a good sign [...]

27Aug, 2024

Team USA Report – WGC Day 8

August 26, 2024 A significant change in weather today, forecast to persist for several days. It features lower temperatures, more moisture, and much higher chances of afternoon rain and thunderstorms. Today, it led to [...]

26Aug, 2024

Team USA Report – WGC Day 7

August 24, 2024 We had something a bit closer to standard Uvalde soaring weather today: cumulus clouds that appeared in mid-morning, developed nicely by launch time, and covered almost the entire task area by [...]

26Aug, 2024

Team USA Report – WGC Day 6

August 23, 2024 As predicted, Uvalde temperatures indeed did moderate today – we reached only 102F. It doesn’t sound like much of an improvement over 107, but the difference was noticeable. Unfortunately, the same can [...]

23Aug, 2024

Team USA Report – WGC Day 5

August 22, 2024 Another very hot day at Uvalde (high temperature 105F). It’s said this may be the last of the current stretch of extraordinary heat, and that cooler temperatures – perhaps no higher than [...]

22Aug, 2024

Team USA Report – WGC Day 4

August 21, 2024 Very hot weather (107 F is severe even by central Texas standards) continues at the 38th WGC. Mercifully, it did not yield the blue conditions of yesterday: useful cumulus clouds were forecast [...]

21Aug, 2024

Team USA Report – WGC Day 3

August 20, 2024 A remarkable day today at WGC2024 - among the more notable in the long history of contests here. With a vast high- pressure system sitting almost on top of us, the forecast [...]

21Aug, 2024

Team USA Report – WGC Day 2

August 19, 2024 It was hotter and a bit bluer today, a trend that is predicted to continue in central Texas. (Numbers like 107F are being heard in tomorrow’s forecast.) Speeds were again excellent, [...]

20Aug, 2024

Team USA Report – WGC Day 1

The first competition day of the 38th World Gliding Championships in Uvalde TX featured genuine 'Uvalde weather'. For the uninitiated, this means conditions that are borderline miserable on the ground, but remarkable for pilots [...]

19Aug, 2024

WGC Uvalde – WATCH LIVE NOW

The World Gliding Championships (WGC) in Uvalde, Texas starts Sunday, August 18th, and you can catch all of the action in several places. It is quite an honor to once again host the WGC [...]

29Nov, 2023

Team USA WGC Report

G’Day Race Fans! Today should mark official Practice Day #2. However, we awoke to rain showers, so no official task has been set. My name is Leah Condon and along with Pete von Tresckow I [...]

17Aug, 2021

John Good’s France WGC Report- Ninth Contest Day

A strange day today, with lots of struggle & outlandings, along with some very good US Team results. The forecast was for an unstable airmass, cool post-frontal temperatures and plenty of fairly low cloud, [...]

13Aug, 2021

John Good’s France WGC Report- Sixth Contest Day

Friday the 13th actually worked out reasonably well at WGC2021.  We still don’t have a 1000-point day in any class, but for once the weather came in a little better than forecast, most pilots [...]

11Aug, 2021

US Team Captain’s Report- Fourth Contest Day

After getting the new turnpoint file loaded and checked we attended to Pilots meeting which included the weather brief.  The forecast called for an early start and we would have que. However the day [...]

10Aug, 2021

US Team Captain’s Report- Third Contest Day

This morning was a busy one as the organizers issued version 2 of the waypoints files.  They had to be loaded and checked.    We had some equipment problems that occupied our time after the [...]

10Aug, 2021

John Good’s France WGC Report- Third Contest Day

Much more sun, but another day of short tasks, late starts and plenty of outlandings. Conditions were blue and very weak until mid-afternoon.  At last the 15-Meter class (first in the launch sequence today) [...]

9Aug, 2021

John Good’s France WGC Report- Second Contest Day

A quick note today, as I’m just back from helping retrieve Sarah Arnold, who was among 22 Standard-class pilots unable to complete their relatively short task today.  The forecast again was for early overcast [...]

17Jan, 2020

Sarah Arnold, World Champion!

Congratulations to Sarah Arnold, Standard Class World Champion! This year's WWGC concluded with a wonderful closing ceremony at the Lake Keepit Sports and Recreation Centre, where the competitors in all three classes were recognized, [...]

3Jan, 2020

WWGC 2020 Pre-Contest Days

Grid is filling up as the day warms up! First few gliders have launched for the last day of unofficial practice as competitors get ready for the Women's World Gliding Championship at Lake Keepit, NSW, [...]

3Jan, 2020

John Good’s Report for Jan 3, 2020

It’s Opening Ceremony day of the 10th Women’s World Gliding Championship, at Lake Keepit in New South Wales, Australia.  Practice flying is done and – other than a short ceremony of marching and flag-raising this [...]

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