Monthly Archives: July 2020
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July 30, 2020
Hugh wrote an excellent newsletter two weeks about sharing your underused glider. He made some excellent points about how to increase contest participation. If you haven’t read it, go back and check it out. I was inspired to write this newsletter by Hugh’s submission.
Example; Harris Hill
There are absolutely enough underused gliders to fill up all of the U.S. contests.
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July 23, 2020
When we are flying cross-country, the picture as we look ahead is packed with potentially useful information to help us decide where to point the glider.
While a fat cumulus cloud lying bang on track might seem the obvious place to go, that will not always be the best decision. If a hard right avoids that beautiful well developed cloud, but takes you to a cloud street that runs for 100km and -
July 16, 2020
I have been around competitive racing since I was 18 years old. Most of the truly high-level racing I have personally done was on sailboats, both in college and after. I’ve sailed in multiple North American championships and a J-22 Worlds. I’ve been around high-level sailplane racing since I was 22, which was the first time I flew a towplane at a Nationals. Since then, I’ve been a crew, tow pilot,
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July 09, 2020
The art of thermalling begins well before you even start climbing, and can be divided into 2 simple phases: First of all you must locate the general area of the core; then you must find and keep the sailplane in the strongest part. Seems obvious, but to have a successful flight we must start with one of the objectives and work backward. I’ll give it my best to describe this below, once
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July 02, 2020
Returning to flying post ‘Rona
Disclaimer: I am not saying don’t practice. I am not saying don’t try to get better. I am saying do it properly.
Lots of Time Off
Many of us have had quite a bit of time off from flying this spring. Perhaps we have been flying Condor, perhaps simply working on home improvement projects and forgetting about that expensive toy out in