Bill Finn apparently had a heart attack in the air. His hang
glider reportedly did lazy circles to the ground.http://www.daily-journal.com/news/local/coroner-investigates-death-of-hang-glider-pilot/article_aa367f6a-7878-11e8-84cf-b37326d92c49.htmlHis daughter writes about him
here. mehr

Check the markings on the mountain next to the glacier:
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Larry <<lbunner>> writes
about flying on Sunday at Refugio:
Jonny is an animal. He launches right around nine every day. Today
he does it again and crosses streets right away with base only at 1600’. The
streets at that time are one long continuous cloud. I hear he’s already at
Goliad before I even launch.
I am last out... mehr

Mike Degtoff writes:
No records today I'm afraid. Less wind and clouds drying out! It
was a great looking start though.

Robin Hamilton launching an Aeros Combat. mehr

Jeff Shapiro writes:
The Xpyr Race is over and it was indeed a grand adventure. We were
in good position at the beginning of Day 3 and a flying error that put me on the
ground early during a great forecast, unable to get back to cloudbase until
later in the day, cost us valuable time and distance. I put myself in a tight
spot but with the... mehr

Larry writes:
Friday the CAPE is higher and there is more moisture in the air.
The winds are stronger too. Jonny takes off early with mottled looking streets
coming off of the gulf. He gets up near Goliad and lands. Glen and Nathan get up
and out too. Base is only about 2200' but Glen manages to fly to Yoakum and Nate
lands south of Cuero... mehr

Jonny Durand writes:
A quick four hour flight launching at 10am with great cloud
streets but light winds. I made 250 kms and decided to land as no one else was
left flying. Tomorrow looks to be much stronger winds so wanted to save myself
even though I'm sure I could have made the 514 km goal today on my Noyes Gecko
170.
Hoping for a... mehr

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I set my polar up in the Oudie 4 thus: Menu⇒Settings⇒Next⇒Polar. I
get this screen:

Click the Calculate button in the Oudie Simulator and entering the
user-determined values:

Click okay to get this:

Click Ok, then Menu⇒Settings⇒Next⇒Polar gives me this:

The values that the user entered are still there. This is... mehr

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Larry <<lbunner>>
writes:
The airport was fogged for the mosquitoes this morning. I set up
at 7:30 and went for breakfast. The skew T showed the streeting wouldn’t get
above 2000’ until after 10:00 but we all took off earlier as the clouds looked
so good. There was more moisture in the air and a few drops of rain in the... mehr

https://www.facebook.com/jeff.shapiro.5/posts/2111358932270364
Jeff writes:
Woke up this morning and hiked up to a beautiful launch. Took
around three hours but the payoff was an epic peak top with some nice take off
options, proven by birds circling when I arrived. I pulled the wing up as soon
as clouds started forming and climbed to base... mehr

Audray Luck sends:

So far the Gecko is keeping up with Mick on the Litespeed pretty
well. I've got eyes on both of them and we are two and a half hours into the
flight..
Turns out Jonny got the furthest of anyone today, flying the Gecko.
About 160 miles almost straight north from Refugio, Texas to
Lexington, Texas, a little east of Austin. mehr

Neville Almond writes:
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The more I think about supine, the more I'm convinced of the many
ways it will help us. Comfort, being able to properly analyse the sky
(absolutely essential for cross country) and effortless landings on wheels.
Thanks to Nic Welbourne for... mehr

https://www.idahostatesman.com/latest-news/article213864104.html
The NTSB issued a three-page preliminary crash report. A final
report is expected to be released in coming months.Buchanan, 62, had performed his routine at airshows for years. It involved the
pilot seeming to fly his glider inadvertently past the plane performing an
aerobatic... mehr

Oggy <<oggy>> writes:
Stefan Ivanov is a hang gliding and paragliding pilot from Varna.
Last year I sold him a Combat 13.5 GT, which brought him back to hang gliding
after years of paragliding. In 2017 he managed one 125 km out and return flight
from his 200 meter home site: Nevsha hill. He also got another 60 km triangle in
the... mehr

Gregg Ludwig <<gregg.ludwig.cfi>>
writes:
Day one of the Refugio Cross Country camp scheduled for Monday
June 25, was rescheduled to Wednesday, the 27th. It’s been dry for several days
but last week this area received about 10” of rain so we delayed arrival a
couple of days. Lots of mosquitoes which may be a problem... mehr

Jeff writes:

Last night I felt trapped in a cirque. With north winds predicted, and being
that I was on the south side of some big mountains with a lot of terrain and
distance between us and the turn point, which I had to fly around airspace to
the north to get to.
I wasn’t sure how the morning should go. I figured it was going to be an... mehr

Find the latest versions of FS here:
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We published this earlier:

Joerg Ewald <<joerg.ewald>>
writes:
To be absolutely precise, the default settings in FS2018 is 0.05%
for Category 1 events and 0.5% for Category 2 events –... mehr