Benalla

There was a mid-air collision in 18m class today. Both damaged gliders returned to airfield. Such routine is this at WGC level that it did not make news anywhere?

On Thursday, January 12, 2017 at 7:13:23 AM UTC-7, krasw wrote:
There was a mid-air collision in 18m class today. Both damaged gliders returned to airfield. Such routine is this at WGC level that it did not make news anywhere?

Indeed...When you have blue days and over 100 gliders "out there" in close proximity, this is really not uncommon at major contests. All you have to do is go back in history and this has happened many times. The very good news is that no one was hurt and the gliders were able to land safely. My guess is that the folks would say that it was definitely an unfortunate event and that safety must be continuously emphasized. In the scheme of the "big picture" of a WGC, it was probably not really considered a big deal and as a result, not mentioned (at least publicly..so far..)....We may hear more later.....

Multiple reports about it on Facebook...

At 14:13 12 January 2017, krasw wrote:
There was a mid-air collision in 18m class today. Both damaged
gliders returned to airfield. Such routine is this at WGC level that it
did not make news anywhere?

Do they use FLARM ?

Op donderdag 12 januari 2017 15:13:23 UTC+1 schreef krasw:
There was a mid-air collision in 18m class today. Both damaged gliders returned to airfield. Such routine is this at WGC level that it did not make news anywhere?

If you look at the score sheet, LK and HK were involved in this occurrence
I have put both igc files together in this GoogleEarth KML file https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...se4comfort.kmz

It looks like LK turned inside HK during thermalling
HK immediately returned in the direction of Benalla and landed on Baddaginnie (Earlston) airstrip.
LK initially continued the task and flew back a little bit later to Benalla.

This slide was shown during a safety briefing
https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/...ng-wgc2017.jpg

Day 5 isn't canceled.
Not that high again. Clouds seem to be scarce.
15m has a 280k nominal task with two 25km circles.
18m has 279k nominal with two 30km circles.
Open is 283k nominal with a 10km and two 25km circles.
Jim

On Wednesday, January 4, 2017 at 8:23:49 PM UTC-7, JS wrote:
Everyone is airborne for practice day 1.
http://www.livetrack24.com/events/WGC2017
Jim

US Team @SoaringUSA
Tasks just cancelled for all classes. #wgc2017

Winter, time to get a life.
With no live racing from Aus last night, decided to watch "Zulu Romeo - Good Start", and monitor Allan Barnes on a coaching flight out of Lake Keepit.
SPOT tracking is really poor.
Today looks better at Benalla... Guessing N then SW and home?
Jim

According to livetrack24, aerotow in progress as of 9:30pm EST (US) Sunday.

Aerotows in progress as of 9:30pm (US EST).