Photos from Day 4 at WGC in Uvalde

On Thursday, 9 August 2012 11:49:06 UTC-5, Duster wrote:
On Aug 9, 11:32*am, wrote:

On Thursday, August 9, 2012 7:40:33 AM UTC-4, Paul Remde wrote:

Hi, Photos from day 4 of the WGC in Uvalde, TX are available hehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/remde/s...984490418/Good Soaring, Paul Remde



Thank Paul - very nice pictures.



I agree with others the reporting leaves something to be desired. *The best I've seen is from the Canadian Team's blog. *Am I missing something?



So - what happened to John Seaborn yesterday?



Seaborn is listed as a "DNS" yesterday (Day 3), but there's nothing on

the US Team website that adds anything. IMHO, in a sport that's

struggling to maintain interest, we're missing a great opportunity to

market soaring with the WGC only coming here once in a blue moon (too

costly to ship equipment/teams). Give much credit to the WGC

organizers and directors for mobilizing this. However, maybe they

should have recruited a bigger, more aggressive, PR effort with SSA

assistance? The Spot tracking only includes a few gliders, perhaps

because of tactical issues for the pilots. Even a delayed, but more

expansive, tracking would boost spectator interest. Don't mean to be a

complainer. Cudos to all who are putting in their time/effort to make

a successful competition (and to DB for winning Day 2 in the new

Concordia)!

make sure read all the lines on the 15 meter score sheet. It notes the situation with John's flight on Wednesday.

Ron Gleason - WGC2012 Scoring Team member

On Aug 9, 12:24*pm, Ron Gleason wrote:
On Thursday, 9 August 2012 11:49:06 UTC-5, Duster *wrote:
On Aug 9, 11:32*am, wrote:

On Thursday, August 9, 2012 7:40:33 AM UTC-4, Paul Remde wrote:

Hi, Photos from day 4 of the WGC in Uvalde, TX are available hehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/remde/s...18/GoodSoaring, Paul Remde

Thank Paul - very nice pictures.

I agree with others the reporting leaves something to be desired. *The best I've seen is from the Canadian Team's blog. *Am I missing something?

So - what happened to John Seaborn yesterday?

Seaborn is listed as a "DNS" yesterday (Day 3), but there's nothing on

the US Team website that adds anything. IMHO, in a sport that's

struggling to maintain interest, we're missing a great opportunity to

market soaring with the WGC only coming here once in a blue moon (too

costly to ship equipment/teams). Give much credit to the WGC

organizers and directors for mobilizing this. However, maybe they

should have recruited a bigger, more aggressive, PR effort with SSA

assistance? The Spot tracking only includes a few gliders, perhaps

because of tactical issues for the pilots. Even a delayed, but more

expansive, tracking would boost spectator interest. Don't mean to be a

complainer. Cudos to all who are putting in their time/effort to make

a successful competition (and to DB for winning Day 2 in the new

Concordia)!

make sure read all the lines on the 15 meter score sheet. *It notes the situation with John's flight on Wednesday.

Ron Gleason - WGC2012 Scoring Team member- Hide quoted text -

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Yup, that's why I posted the details on his missed start point. Not
sure if he flew the whole day, with his flight being tossed after the
log was downloaded, but in the old days "good start" was radioed to
the pilot so he/she new to proceed on course. If "bad start" was
heard, they'd come back to try again. Is it accurate to say with the
dataloggers that contest pilots do not have this assurance and don't
know to come back and try again, or do the rules state you can't try a
restart?

The assurance of a valid start is now done by the flight recorder and/or flight computer attached to it. Many options for visual and audio assurances and alarms.

Have not spoken with John but in reviewing the log one can infer he may have had the wrong start line programmed.

BTW, flight logs are available by clicking on the pilots contest number on the score sheet for any given day. Download the log, program in the task and fly his flight.

yes he did fly the complete task

Ron Gleason - WGC Scoring Team member

On Thursday, 9 August 2012 12:33:36 UTC-5, Duster wrote:
On Aug 9, 12:24*pm, Ron Gleason wrote:

On Thursday, 9 August 2012 11:49:06 UTC-5, Duster *wrote:

On Aug 9, 11:32*am, wrote:



On Thursday, August 9, 2012 7:40:33 AM UTC-4, Paul Remde wrote:



Hi, Photos from day 4 of the WGC in Uvalde, TX are available hehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/remde/s...18/GoodSoaring, Paul Remde



Thank Paul - very nice pictures.



I agree with others the reporting leaves something to be desired. *The best I've seen is from the Canadian Team's blog. *Am I missing something?



So - what happened to John Seaborn yesterday?



Seaborn is listed as a "DNS" yesterday (Day 3), but there's nothing on



the US Team website that adds anything. IMHO, in a sport that's



struggling to maintain interest, we're missing a great opportunity to



market soaring with the WGC only coming here once in a blue moon (too



costly to ship equipment/teams). Give much credit to the WGC



organizers and directors for mobilizing this. However, maybe they



should have recruited a bigger, more aggressive, PR effort with SSA



assistance? The Spot tracking only includes a few gliders, perhaps



because of tactical issues for the pilots. Even a delayed, but more



expansive, tracking would boost spectator interest. Don't mean to be a



complainer. Cudos to all who are putting in their time/effort to make



a successful competition (and to DB for winning Day 2 in the new



Concordia)!



make sure read all the lines on the 15 meter score sheet. *It notes the situation with John's flight on Wednesday.



Ron Gleason - WGC2012 Scoring Team member- Hide quoted text -



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Yup, that's why I posted the details on his missed start point. Not

sure if he flew the whole day, with his flight being tossed after the

log was downloaded, but in the old days "good start" was radioed to

the pilot so he/she new to proceed on course. If "bad start" was

heard, they'd come back to try again. Is it accurate to say with the

dataloggers that contest pilots do not have this assurance and don't

know to come back and try again, or do the rules state you can't try a

restart?

Yes you can start as many times as you like, the last valid start is used for scoring.

On Aug 9, 12:48*pm, Ron Gleason wrote:
On Thursday, 9 August 2012 12:33:36 UTC-5, Duster *wrote:
On Aug 9, 12:24*pm, Ron Gleason wrote:

On Thursday, 9 August 2012 11:49:06 UTC-5, Duster *wrote:

On Aug 9, 11:32*am, wrote:

On Thursday, August 9, 2012 7:40:33 AM UTC-4, Paul Remde wrote:

Hi, Photos from day 4 of the WGC in Uvalde, TX are available hehttp://www.flickr.com/photos/remde/s...18/GoodSoaring, Paul Remde

Thank Paul - very nice pictures.

I agree with others the reporting leaves something to be desired. *The best I've seen is from the Canadian Team's blog. *Am I missing something?

So - what happened to John Seaborn yesterday?

Seaborn is listed as a "DNS" yesterday (Day 3), but there's nothing on

the US Team website that adds anything. IMHO, in a sport that's

struggling to maintain interest, we're missing a great opportunity to

market soaring with the WGC only coming here once in a blue moon (too

costly to ship equipment/teams). Give much credit to the WGC

organizers and directors for mobilizing this. However, maybe they

should have recruited a bigger, more aggressive, PR effort with SSA

assistance? The Spot tracking only includes a few gliders, perhaps

because of tactical issues for the pilots. Even a delayed, but more

expansive, tracking would boost spectator interest. Don't mean to be a

complainer. Cudos to all who are putting in their time/effort to make

a successful competition (and to DB for winning Day 2 in the new

Concordia)!

make sure read all the lines on the 15 meter score sheet. *It notes the situation with John's flight on Wednesday.

Ron Gleason - WGC2012 Scoring Team member- Hide quoted text -

- Show quoted text -

Yup, that's why I posted the details on his missed start point. Not

sure if he flew the whole day, with his flight being tossed after the

log was downloaded, but in the old days "good start" was radioed to

the pilot so he/she new to proceed on course. If "bad start" was

heard, they'd come back to try again. Is it accurate to say with the

dataloggers that contest pilots do not have this assurance and don't

know to come back and try again, or do the rules state you can't try a

restart?

Yes you can start as many times as you like, the last valid start is used for scoring.- Hide quoted text -

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Thanks for the info, Ron. They have now started today's tasks.
The track links have been published before. Looks to me like this
first one by Hawk has all the US pilots, while the Way link has no US
pilots today.
15m: A8 John Seaborn; ZL Dave Leonard
18m: WE Bill Elliott; P7 Gary Ittner
Open: DB Dick Butler; SS Ron Tabery

http://www.hawketracking.net/wgc2012/files/tracking.htm

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

On Aug 9, 12:46*pm, Ron Gleason wrote:
The assurance of a valid start is now done by the flight recorder and/or flight computer attached to it. *Many options for visual and audio assurances and alarms.

Have not spoken with John but in reviewing the log one can infer he may have had the wrong start line programmed.

BTW, flight logs are available by clicking on the pilots contest number on the score sheet for any given day. *Download the log, program in the task and fly his flight.

yes he did fly the complete task

Ron Gleason - WGC Scoring Team member

Not only flew it, but did darn well. Compare his flight with Suchanek
-- John was staying ahead through most of the task. (I think I can see
the point at the third turn where he figured out about the start!)
Heartbreak. Been there, done that, leaned the hard way to triple check
task, start point, radius vs. diameter, then get the crew to do the
same.
Though like the others here, I'm pretty starved for news and analysis.
Even the disasters are worth knowing about. (ZL's traces from day 1
and day 3 are sobering. Been there and done that too!) Good job to the
Canadian team for excellent blog posts and analysis. The belgian blog
is good too.
John Cochrane

On Thursday, 9 August 2012 13:40:08 UTC-5, John Cochrane wrote:
On Aug 9, 12:46*pm, Ron Gleason wrote:

The assurance of a valid start is now done by the flight recorder and/or flight computer attached to it. *Many options for visual and audio assurances and alarms.



Have not spoken with John but in reviewing the log one can infer he may have had the wrong start line programmed.



BTW, flight logs are available by clicking on the pilots contest number on the score sheet for any given day. *Download the log, program in the task and fly his flight.



yes he did fly the complete task



Ron Gleason - WGC Scoring Team member



Not only flew it, but did darn well. Compare his flight with Suchanek

-- John was staying ahead through most of the task. (I think I can see

the point at the third turn where he figured out about the start!)

Heartbreak. Been there, done that, leaned the hard way to triple check

task, start point, radius vs. diameter, then get the crew to do the

same.

Though like the others here, I'm pretty starved for news and analysis.

Even the disasters are worth knowing about. (ZL's traces from day 1

and day 3 are sobering. Been there and done that too!) Good job to the

Canadian team for excellent blog posts and analysis. The belgian blog

is good too.

John Cochrane

I would be all over the US TEam captain and/or crew(s) for specific information. While we some 'behind the curtain of scoring and management issues' our access to the pilots is limited.

John didn't know about his start problems until after the ice cream at supper. Too late to restart. He had a great flight except for that, and landed today with a big smile on his face. Of course it seems that he is always smiling.

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wrote:

On Thursday, August 9, 2012 11:14:03 AM UTC-4, Clay wrote:
Not just you Michael, I find the lack of info to be disappointing, to put
it mildly. I guess Cochrane spoiled us in Szeged.

Maybe we should all chip in and sent Frank Paynter down there so we know
what's going on... Enquiring minds (or what's left of them) want to know...

Jack Wyman

I would chip in for that! Not to take anything away from the U.S. Team
bloggers, I certainly appreciate their writeups, but Frank should have
been tapped as the U.S. Team reporter.

WB

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In article ,
wrote:

On Thursday, August 9, 2012 11:14:03 AM UTC-4, Clay wrote:
Not just you Michael, I find the lack of info to be disappointing, to
put
it mildly. I guess Cochrane spoiled us in Szeged.

Maybe we should all chip in and sent Frank Paynter down there so we know
what's going on... Enquiring minds (or what's left of them) want to
know...

Jack Wyman

I would chip in for that! Not to take anything away from the U.S. Team
bloggers, I certainly appreciate their writeups, but Frank should have
been tapped as the U.S. Team reporter.

WB

You do realize though that by Frank not being in Uvalde the organizers have
assured themselves of good weather :-).

Pete