Re: News from Chilhowee?

[Luke Szczepaniak]

On 04/07/2015 11:32 PM, John Cochrane wrote:
> Is there any news from the Pan Americans? Am I just looking at the wrong websites? Following the ssa link I haven't found anything. Usually someone at least posts "it's raining, we went to the movies," "It's raining, we went for BBQ" or something.
>
> Thanks
> John Cohrane
>
Mass land-out yesterday. Jerzy Szemplinski XG (CAN) and Sean Fidler 7T
(USA) completed the task, everyone else either landed out or abandoned
task and came back to McMinn airport.

We woke up to rain today, the rain cleared for a short while so we
gridded - day scrubbed at 12:30, by 13:00 it rained again.

Apart from the Canadian Team blog at http://sailplaneracing.com/pagc and
the official page http://pagc.chilhowee.com/ there is also the facebook
page https://www.facebook.com/pagc2015

We have one day, this weekend looks promising for two more. We need a
total of 4 days for a valid contest.

Cheers
Luke Szczepaniak -2W

[Tony[_5_]]

100% land out today. Fun and definitely challenging.

[Sean Fidler]

5E looks to have won the day in 15m. Congrats to Eric Nelson! Very difficult conditions developed after a patch of high cirrus abruptly shut thermal activity down to almost nothing. To further complicate matters, limited fields were available in the area that we all got stuck in. Congrats to all for getting down safely and many making it over 100 km!

Today looks flyable (day 3 hopefully) and then a horrible forecast for the rest of the week in which we will need another contest day to have avalidcontes contest.

Wish us luck!