WGC Gates open Friday

[Duster]

Long AAT tasks assigned; all gates open, but so far no takers (2pm
cst). I think there was concern about a seabreeze front coming in, but
satellite looks like some nice cus and poss cu-streets developing
everywhere, perhaps until late evening.

The official WGC website has all but been abandoned. FB has some good
posts/info, Soaring Cafe is great. The tasks seem to be published on
the GoLive site first; LiveATC is working again today and you can
listen to the US team discussing strategy until the start.

P7 and WE (US) just went through the gates. 2:06 cst

http://soaringspot.com/wgc20112/results/

http://soaringcafe.com/2012/08/the-final-days-up-to-the-climax/#comment-10570

http://www.liveatc.net (search KUVA)

[Tony[_5_]]

On Friday, August 17, 2012 2:07:48 PM UTC-5, Duster wrote:
> Long AAT tasks assigned; all gates open, but so far no takers (2pm cst). I think there was concern about a seabreeze front coming in, but satellite looks like some nice cus and poss cu-streets developing everywhere, perhaps until late evening. The official WGC website has all but been abandoned. FB has some good posts/info, Soaring Cafe is great. The tasks seem to be published on the GoLive site first; LiveATC is working again today and you can listen to the US team discussing strategy until the start. P7 and WE (US) just went through the gates. 2:06 cst http://soaringspot.com/wgc20112/results/ http://soaringcafe.com/2012/08/the-final-days-up-to-the-climax/#comment-10570 http://www.liveatc.net (search KUVA)

keep in mind that team captains have 30 minutes to submit start times, and most of them take full advantage of that to delay as long as possible.

[Dave Nadler]

On Friday, August 17, 2012 3:07:48 PM UTC-4, Duster wrote:
> Long AAT tasks assigned
That's Racing tasks (fixed turnpoints)

[Duster]

On Aug 17, 2:47*pm, Dave Nadler > wrote:
> On Friday, August 17, 2012 3:07:48 PM UTC-4, Duster wrote:
> > Long AAT tasks assigned
>
> That's Racing tasks (fixed turnpoints)

Yes, I stand corrected (bad early post from WGC site). Almost 700km
again for Open Class.

Good article by Ron Tabery's wife about history of gliding at Uvalde
(which does not have a club, by the way)
http://soaringcafe.com/2012/08/why-uvalde-why-indeed/

[Dave Nadler]

http://tracking.way.aero/wgc2012/

shows crazy tracks for German team Open class.
It shows a complete nonsense track for EB (Michael Sommer),
and VB (Tassilo Bode) missing start gate and first TP...

Sure would be ice to see what's actually happening !

[Duster]

On Aug 17, 3:34*pm, Dave Nadler > wrote:
> http://tracking.way.aero/wgc2012/
>
> shows crazy tracks for German team Open class.
> It shows a complete nonsense track for EB (Michael Sommer),
> and VB (Tassilo Bode) missing start gate and first TP...
>
> Sure would be ice to see what's actually happening !

None of the 3 tracking platforms have the same pilots or real-time,
just staggard stop-start-stop, which is of no value as a spectator but
blocks tactical use. I'm wondering why they organizers can't just
record all the pilots and run a delayed playback of 15 minutes or so.
http://www.tiptop.com/app/wgc/ integrates weather with the tracks, and
today you can see the cu pop up as the front pushes them SSE.

[Dave Nadler]

Except, tracking has stopped for DB (last report 1:24 ago),
and loading the weather overlay crashes Firefox on my machine...
Aaarrgggg...