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https://fai.org/news/302-km-out-and-return-distance-both-world-and-european-record-claim?type=node&id=24473

FAI has received a new record claim simultaneously breaking both
World and European simultaneously by 4 pilots. An out-and-return distance of
302,11 km was covered by the 4 leading pilots of Slovenia: Bojan Gabersek,
Primos Susa, Jost... mehr

2019 Green Swamp Sport Klassic: March 17th - 23rd2019 Quest Air National Series, week 1:  April 14th - 20th, week 2: April
22 - 28th. (one competition, two scoring weeks) mehr

Since the end of the 2018 Quest Air Nationals on Saturday we've
been putting our lives back together. The wind has been predominantly west for
the last few days and he skies full of cu's and while we would have likely had
tasks if it was a competition we waited until Thursday to fly when the winds
were supposed to lighten up a little. The... mehr

https://gardenandgun.com/articles/osprey-carries-shark-carrying-fish/

But when he zoomed in on the images, he could see the osprey’s
talons hooking what looked like a small shark — likely a dogfish. Back at home on
his computer, he zoomed in further. “Sure enough, the bird was carrying a shark,
but then I see this other thing... mehr

https://techcrunch.com/2018/04/22/where-have-all-the-pilots-gone/?ex_cid=SigDig
You’d think everybody would want to fly. It’s been a universal
human dream since the first cave person saw the first pterodactyl. You’d think
better technology, greater demand, economic growth, and population growth would
mean more and more pilots.... mehr

Bernie Baer <<bbaer>>
writes:
NSWGA have discontinued financial support for the NSW RASP
service; consequently this mornings forecast will be the last and the system
de-commissioned in the near future.
That would mean: https://skysight.io/ mehr

Apparently zoos love these little social prairie dogs.
https://airtribune.com/2018-big-spring-national-series/info/details__info mehr

https://youtu.be/LDfQg5b25tE


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Christian, Larry Bunner and I started very close to each other. We
did not stay close together for long.
Christian finds his first thermal two minutes and fourteen seconds after the
start window opens. I come in 334 feet lower under him in the same thermal. He
leaves two minutes later having climbed at 640 fpm on average to 3,764'.

In... mehr

Jeff Shapiro writes:
For the last six months, between trips, I've been focused on
training and preparing for this year's Xpyr Race in June. With the help of The
Mountain Project, LLC, Mike Wolfe, as my training coach and Brittany Aäe helping
me with nutrition and recovery strategy, I'm feeling more and more prepared
every day. Two... mehr

Here is another way to visualize your flight.
1) Reformat your IGC tracklog using GPSDump to the KML format (Ctrl+O and then
Ctrl+S)
2) Register here: http://flightlog.org/fl.html?l=1
3) After you receive a password via email login here:
http://flightlog.org/fl.html?l=1&a=37
4) Click New flight and then on the next page click "Click Here"
5)... mehr

Tiki writes:
Cross Country Flying Season is in full swing in Texas and the
Cowboy Up Flying Club is once again registered with Airtribune as a League, 
https://airtribune.com/cuhanggliding/info/details__info.
Since we fly year round, Cross Country can happen anytime.
If you have registered on the Cowboy Up Flying Club on Airtribune in the... mehr

On the fourth task of the 2018 Quest Air Nationals:
mehr

https://airtribune.com/2018-quest-air-national-series/results
The Sport Class top three:

Andrey Solomykin, Charles Cozean, and Rod Regier. Sara Weaver was the first
place woman.
Final Results:



#
Name
Glider
Total



1
Andrey Solomykin
Aeros Discus 14
1822


2
Charles Cozean
Wills Wing U2 145
1576


3
Rod... mehr

https://airtribune.com/2018-quest-air-national-series/results
The forecast was for 11 mph west winds at the surface at 1 and 2 PM. Not too
strong, but from a direction that sometimes causes turbulence. Top of Lift to
5,000' with moderately good lift.
The west wind makes for interesting task choices as it pushes us toward the
Orland Class B... mehr

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https://airtribune.com/2018-quest-air-national-series/results
With a forecast for light winds, no cu's, TOL 3,000' - 4,000', up to 6,000'
after 4 PM and lift up to 600 fpm, the task committee called a basically out and
return task:

A twenty five kilometer entry start cylinder with a turnpoint inside at the
northeast corner of the Green... mehr

https://youtu.be/WniXFg8tboM


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