Team Captain, John Good has been a member of the US Team at many World Gliding Championship event.
He has served as crew, Team Captain and daily report author numerous times. John has served on the US Team Committee, the Contest Rules Committee, chaired the Contest Committee, and the Hall of Fame Vetting board. He has received an SSA Exceptional Achievement Award several time and is a member of the United States Soaring Hall of Fame. He was the Deputy Championship Director/ Task-setter at the 2012 WGC in Uvalde, Texas and brings a wealth of international rules knowledge as Captain.
John is an active competition pilot and flies a Discus 2 and Duo Discus.
NEWS ABOUT JOHN
Team USA Report – WGC Day 13
A difficult day with long tasks, more than half of which were not completed. The forecast was for decent lift [...]
Team USA Report – WGC Day 12
WGC2025 enjoyed its best weather of the contest thus far – though you could be excused for not expecting this [...]
Team USA Report – WGC Day 11
A decidedly better forecast today. The front that brought rain has wandered off well to the east, leaving Tabor with [...]
Team USA Report – WGC Day 10
We awoke to a sky full of low clouds and light rain. It did not look like the start [...]
Team USA Report – WGC Day 9
Today was a strange one. Forecasts agreed that an approaching front would at last sweep away the awkward airmass that [...]
Team USA Report – WGC Day 8
It’s a non-flying day for the 39th World Gliding Championships at Tabor. Forecasts called for another weak blue day: not [...]