Christian Ciech writes:
After the 14 km task of yesterday, we had a nice looking sky for
the second task. Unfortunately the wind was too much for most of the field,
including Ollie and I, who we were leading the day. So after the second
turnpoint, we went up to cloud base and with 35 km/h head wind, we decided to go
back to the goal field.... mehr

https://youtu.be/OTN8J-lpQGM


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Two of them for about an hour and a half of multiple landings and take offs.
Flew in with propellers in front and then much later flew over and away with the
propellers in front. mehr

https://airtribune.com/2020-new-zealand-hang-gliding-nationals/info/details__info
No results posted as of Saturday morning (US date). mehr

Yon Barcena writes:

Jose María Iriarte Ziritza, Tximo, passed away on January 13 at
the age of 55, victim of a hang gliding accident that he suffered a few days
earlier, on December 26. That day he went with a friend to make a local flight
and say goodbye to 2019 flying. They both went to a small hillside located south
of Pamplona, the... mehr

Nick Greece writes:
Calling all pilots, race pilots, pwc pilots, world championship
pilots who have raced or plan on racing in Valle De Bravo. We need a bit love
for the Gutierrez family. A family and team who have always been there for us
through thick and thin. Please share this as much as possible, lets get these
lifelong friends back in... mehr

Larry Huffman writes (to Larry Bunner):
"I know you put a lot of effort into weather forecasting and
sharing your skill with others. I’ve been using a quick and dirty way of
forecasting thermals that I’ve had pretty good results with.
Go to a National Weather Service point forecast such as this one for Groveland,
Fl.... mehr

https://ussoaringteams.org/news/https://ussoaringteams.org/john-goods-final-report-for-wwgc-2019/
This contest naturally wanted to make tracking displays available
to interested spectators around the world. For this, they chose to use what are
known as GFA trackers – self-contained cell-based trackers supported by the
Gliding Federation... mehr

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1912.12132.pdf
In this paper, we focus on the sub problem of predicting the
instantaneous rate of precipitation one hour into the future from Doppler radar.
Specifically, we provide three binary classifications that indicate whether the
rate exceeds thresholds that roughly correspond to  trace rain, light rain,
and... mehr

Australia has been adversely affected by global warming. The
Australian Bureau of Meteorology publishes posters than give one a broad
overview of how things have changed down under. The web pages are interactive
and you can drill down for a better view or download the large scale PDF.
This is a very small version of the temperature poster.... mehr

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Found
here. mehr

https://www.fai.org/news/cancellation-2022-fai-world-air-games-and-future-overhaul-event-concept
The Turkish Aeronautical Association (THK), which had been awarded
the organisation of the event, asked the FAI to postpone the Games until 2025,
due to the current difficult economic situation in Turkey. Following this
request, the FAI Executive... mehr

April Mackin <<thatmackin>>
writes:
On March 21- 25, 2020 Paradise Air Sports will host another
mentored hang gliding, "Cross Country 101 Flying clinic". If you are new to
Cross Country, have never flown Cross Country, would like to learn the
ins-and-outs of Cross Country flying, this is for you. If you are more advanced
and... mehr

https://airtribune.com/xxxiii-valerio-albrizio-trophy/info/details__info

The competition has been included in the FAI calendar 2020 and is
organized by Aero Club Lega Piloti in cooperation with Delta Club Laveno.
The flight area is in the Pre-Alps, on Lake Maggiore, in the North West of
Italy, not far from Switzerland. The location is... mehr

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I decided to rest my sore back (too much heavy lifting around
Wilotree Park) but Mick Howard and John Simon decided to go north but late at
2:20 PM. At 10 AM the sky was full of ill formed gray bottomed (thin) cu's with
light cirrus overhead. The cu's stayed that way all day.
Michael Howard <<mickhoward100>>
writes:
Cloud base... mehr

Attila Bertok writes:

After I think 28 years coming to Forbes (except a few years when it wasn’t held)
and losing at least 5 un-losable Flatlands, I finally can put this in the
collection, too. Josh came 2nd with brilliant flying and Jonny came 3rd.
It all started as doom and gloom. The country was on fire and the smoke was
delivered to... mehr

https://www.facebook.com/bruce.goldsmith.79/posts/10215799608923799


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Richard Westmoreland, the PIC on the tandem, shouted down that the
conditions were great with cloud base at 3,000' at 12:30 PM. The HRRR forecast
said 2,000' at 1 PM so we had assumed that we would launch at 2 PM. As soon as I
heard the news from Richard I got with Mick and said that we've got to get
going.
We had a light north northwest... mehr