1st FAI Pan American Gliding Championships

United States,   6 April 2015 – 18 April 2015

Champions

Handicap Class
1 PG Phil Gaisford 2,043
2 RF Robin Clark 1,815
3 55L Sergio Reinaudo 1,649
15-Meter Class
1 XG Jerzy Szemplinski 2,164
2 5E Erik Nelson 2,038
3 7T Sean Fidler 2,020

Apr 14 Report

We gave it a good try again today, but in the end we had nothing to show for it. We awoke to gloomy skies and drizzle this morning, and the pessimists began to make their plans for shopping, laundry, and tourism.  The Director, whose job is to be an optimist, listened to the forecast of met man Tony Condon, whose job is to be neutral.  The forecast indicated that something might be possible in the late afternoon, so we took a chance and gridded after lunch at 1330. The good news was that of the...
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Written on 15 April 2015 at 03:59.

Apr 14 Tasks


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Written on 14 April 2015 at 22:52.

Apr 14 Weather


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Written on 14 April 2015 at 22:48.

Apr 13 Report

The gastronomical forecast was much better than the meteorological, so we cancelled the Tasks today and assigned a dinner party instead.
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Written on 13 April 2015 at 20:32.

Apr 13 Weather


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Written on 13 April 2015 at 20:28.

Apr 12 Report

We do not understand cirrostratus clouds. Yesterday we expected them to move out of the way for us, but they lingered in the southern portion of our Task area and brought everyone down.  Today, we expected them to stay in place to our west, but they moved over us instead, where they caused widespread pessimism at launch time.  So much pessimism, in fact, that the Director decided to reduce the two Racing Tasks to the bare minimum, 150 km for both classes.  This seemed like a good idea at the ti...
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Written on 13 April 2015 at 03:53.

Apr 12 Tasks


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Written on 13 April 2015 at 02:46.

Apr 12 Weather


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Written on 13 April 2015 at 02:30.

Apr 11 Report

We had valid results in both classes today, but we did it the hard way. Optimism prevailed as we staged for a launch into a cool, fresh post-frontal wind under a blue sky.  The original tasks were ambitious Racing Tasks of 317 km and 273 km. The forecast called for a straightforward soaring day of at least 5 hours duration.  Once again the unforecastable cirrostratus clouds moved in at launch time, and task setter John Good was forced to scale back to tasks of 298 and 257 km over the central pa...
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Written on 12 April 2015 at 05:02.

Apr 11 Tasks


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Written on 11 April 2015 at 19:59.

Latest winner

1. Tony Condon 116.19 km
2. Ryszard Krolikowski 120.89 km
3. Sergio Reinaudo 103.31 km
Updated: 16/07/2015, 18:55
1. Erik Nelson 61.73 km/h
2. Sean Murphy 58.80 km/h
3. Jerzy Szemplinski 58.37 km/h

Latest task

Task 13, 18 Apr 2015
Task distance: 118.98 km  /  264.47 km  (186.60 km)
Task duration: 1:45:00
Updated: 21/05/2015, 06:50
Task 13, 18 Apr 2015
Task distance: 102.11 km  /  241.26 km  (169.18 km)
Task duration: 2:00:00
Updated: 21/05/2015, 06:50

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