1st ever FAI Sailplane Grand Prix USA 2016 less than 2 weeks out…

those video recaps should be great! any live footage from the cockpits or chase aircraft? looking forward to following along sean!

ND

On Monday, July 11, 2016 at 9:52:58 PM UTC-4, Sean wrote:
We have 6 media agencies attending at various levels (video and print media).

Glideport.aero will be the official tracking website. The SSA tracker may also work, but since this is not an SSA contest adding the task will be more of a challenge. We will have live YouTube coverage on all race days driven by incredible mobile based tracking apps (GlideTrack, Spot (terrible) and InReach (good)). The result should be excellent coverage of the pilots as they progress thru the racing task. At any given time the placing of the pilots will be evident.

Daily video recaps will be produced most days and we will also have interviews, podium presentations and media reports/articles to share on the website and SGP USA Facebook page.

This is our first go for a US SGP. There are many moving parts. I'm sure we will have a few technical challenges but overall it should be a great experience for the pilots, soaring followers and, hopefully, the public tunes in a bit.

On Wednesday, July 13, 2016 at 1:47:41 PM UTC-6, ND wrote:
those video recaps should be great! any live footage from the cockpits or chase aircraft? looking forward to following along sean!

ND

On Monday, July 11, 2016 at 9:52:58 PM UTC-4, Sean wrote:
We have 6 media agencies attending at various levels (video and print media).

Glideport.aero will be the official tracking website. The SSA tracker may also work, but since this is not an SSA contest adding the task will be more of a challenge. We will have live YouTube coverage on all race days driven by incredible mobile based tracking apps (GlideTrack, Spot (terrible) and InReach (good)). The result should be excellent coverage of the pilots as they progress thru the racing task. At any given time the placing of the pilots will be evident.

Daily video recaps will be produced most days and we will also have interviews, podium presentations and media reports/articles to share on the website and SGP USA Facebook page.

This is our first go for a US SGP. There are many moving parts. I'm sure we will have a few technical challenges but overall it should be a great experience for the pilots, soaring followers and, hopefully, the public tunes in a bit.

Sean would have drones catching the action if he could.