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  1. Contests Final Glide MacCready

    Wasting time getting to final glide

    June 14, 2018

    I can still remember clearly flying a WGC in an ASW-22. There were great clouds all the way home. My teammates ahead were finding good air. The ground crews were saying the clouds were making it all the way to the airport. But others were still climbing trying to get final glide. It was a calculated risk, but it looked like a great sky.

    I headed off, leaving the gaggle I was with and passed

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