Post 1.493 on April 24 2024 When you have 107 guests you want to be , as organizer and host , on your best, BUT unfortunately in our gliding world , we ALL know; the weather cannot be organized. FCC GLIDING 2024 Prievidza, Slovakia 14 April 2024 – 25 April 2024 Would there be a task 1 on day 4???? Courtesy Kevin from team France Kévin Faur Task 2 on flying day 1 out of 4; Club; 2 hour AAT.…CANCELLED Combi;2 hour AAT….CANCELLED 15 m; 2 hour AAT.… CANCELLED Task 3 on flying day 1 out of 5 till now . And indeed finally the great weather arrived not only here with blue skies and great Cu’s but als ..read more

Post 1.492 on April 17 2024 Since yesterday we had 11 dgr.C and thunderstorms , rain and hail , wind up to 100 km./h better called AUTUM. Now spring is hopefully quickly around the corner again, we had here already here up to 25 dgr C, more and more nice spring pictures are shared . Here is one from the area I live in an area of outstanding natural beauty. courtesy; Henriette van der Laak —-JUNIOR CUP was flown from Neresheim in Germany in ONE class between April 6 and April 13 with 23 pilots and so to see “helpers” in the Duo Discus. They had reasonable weather with small tasks on task 1 and ..read more

Post 1.491 on April 10 2024 It’ s Wednesday again ,publish-day, but it took me till last Monday afternoon, before I could sit behind my laptop . Head is still not really clear, still very tired, but the influenza nearly left my body. My muscles hurt from coughing but, I do feel better. Time to look back on what happened. I promised you news about comps in Nitra and Torino, so here we go. Nitra; Landing on April 2 as seen by ELFO. ——Nitra [Sovakia] ..PRIBINA CUP! Not as many participants as in the past, when there sometimes were over 100, but as Easter is early this year, it is normally colder ..read more

Post 1.490 on April 3 2024 courtesy Bo shared by Soaring Society of America They hoped for 4 days in a row in Seminole to finish of the 20 m Nationals. That was hope….. Both in the USA and Australia the word El Nino is mentioned a lot. When I lived in Australia the El Nino mostly meant “a good season” for our soaring center, but dry and hot and often disastrous for the farmers. It’s not 1 year but more!!! Rich with his good and funny stories about the 20 m Nationals writes about it this way: “Experts call the weather pattern we are in now, El Nino which I believe in Spanish means boy. Well, bo ..read more

Post 1.489 on March 27 2024 Always interesting to see if everything is working again on the laptop, after they closed off ALL electricity, for 6 hours. Pfff….IT WORKED!!!!! The astronomical spring has started here and for my Aussie mates autumn. We started with a lovely 19dgr. C but 2 days later it felt like autumn here. Monday however looked here like 1000-km-weather, which of course ,it was n’t , but super skies. In any case 16 Dutch pilots flew on that Monday and they really had a good time; 477 in an ASW 22BLE……420km in an ASW 20WL, 5 over 300 km -flights and 2 over 200 km. Great start of ..read more

Post 1.488 on March 20 2024 Many gliders under construction.As shared by Lumpy Paterson –—–It’s not often that a customer/guest is allowed to make pictures in the final-production- hangar of a glider manufacturer. For that reason it is really kind of Lumpy to share some pictures from part of this process. He is there for his new JS5. On top of that it is great PR for Jonker Sailplanes. No,… this LP is not his. It has a German registration and according to Lumpy”nope …… mine written much prettier than that “ On day 2 of his visit, Lumpy writes; “Welcome to JS3 RES heaven! Lots of differe ..read more

Post 1.487 on March 13 2024 Though,….. The SENIORS are flying in Florida and there is 1 upcoming REGIONAL competition in South Africa end of April; ——–The season is about to start everywhere in this part of the world and at some places it started already. For some clubs reparations are still in full swing. Gliders will be in perfect condition, parachutes repacked and instruments “tuned” SkySight shares some news /PR, as as well “The wait is over – the Gliding Season is starting! Another season is upon us and we want to make sure you don’t miss a single opportunity to take flight. That’s why ..read more

Post 1.486 on March 6 2024 ——Regatta’s are fun. Not so serious, but serious enough!!!When you can’t fly every day, you show up when you can . Mathias [Kopp] did not fly during the first days , but on task 4 [3 hour AAT] his ASG 32 Mi, was on the score board as number 2 for the day, behind another new face Justin [Smith] in JS 3 at the podium. Justin missed day 1 ,was present on the next 2 days and won task 4 with 356.67 km/ 111.11 km./h. This day overall leader David [Pickels] did not fly so others passed by . Ayala who was 6th for the day, tops the overall scores now. Then…… a 3 hour NOT FLOW ..read more

Post 1.485 on February 28 2024 —–The Lake Keepit REGATTA is still in full swing and with a “light , but fierce” competition always great fun. Great place too as they have their airfield at the LAKE. Nice accommodation AT the field as well and a good club house , I know , as I slept in the back of it in a nice room, always full of laughing friendly people, the club house NOT my room. Nearly no water in the lake , when I was there last with the WWGC in 2019, but it has filled up again. Wish I could send ALL our rainwater to that Lake. TOO MUCH RAIN HERE!!!!! Talking about that WWGC, another pilo ..read more

Post 1.485 on February 25 2024 Extra blog because of the end of 2 comps yesterday. A great picture from Bruce. THANK YOU for sharing your posts Bruce and for always allowing me , to use them. Courtesy Tocumwal Soaring Centre First the 2-seater NATIONAL comps in Tocumwal; With 3 more days it was rather exciting to see if the ARCUS M could stay in front of the ASG 32 MI. In both gliders top pilots, though the ASG has a former WGC champion in it with Brad. Here we go again with Thursday’s Task 5; 3.45 AAT…..COMPLIMENTS to the Duo Discus pilots from Narrogin; RUNNER UP!!!!!The difference between t ..read more