At the meeting this morning, the French Team had a right to smile. Of the 9 available slots on the podium (3 classes, top 3 per class), the French had 5 of them. That is a very nice way to start the contest. Congratulations!
If you have not seen the interviews that Paul Remde is doing after the pilots meeting, you should watch them in the afternoon. Listen in the words of the actual pilots who won the day. You may learn something that will help your flying.
Just when the gliders were moved into position on the runway this afternoon, we went aloft in the helicopter to take photos. Paul again did a great job to capture the whole look of the WGC here in Uvalde. We will be using some of these pictures all during the event.
Our launch crew again did a great job in getting everyone launched safely. It looked like the self-launched gliders were also doing a better job of following directions to the proper drop off point.
Right now, the gliders are all on task and it appears the cloud bases down south have been between 5-6,000ft and up north over the hill country we have seen gliders up around 9,500ft. Lift is greatly separated, down south we have seen climbs in 1kt lift and the north upwards of 8kts. No one appears to be low or in danger of landing out. Maybe I should stop there and not jinx it for them. Until later today, have a wonderful day watching the action on puretrack.io.
Cheers,
Rich Owen
Media Team
