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Green Swamp Sport Klassic - three days later

Tue, Apr 14 2015, 2:04:46 pm EDT

Nice weather after the competition

Green Swamp Sport Klassic 2015|Quest Air|weather

The weather forecast here.

The weather has actually been pretty nice after the Green Swamp Sport Klassic. Rain in the late afternoon one hate and a little rain at night on the other. Plenty of good flying in competition conditions could have been had (but it would have been a bit nerve wracking. Lots of tandems and single flights here.

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Green Swamp Sport Klassic - Day 7

Sat, Apr 11 2015, 9:29:09 pm EDT

An upwind leg to start off given the conditions and the approaching front

Facebook|Green Swamp Sport Klassic 2015|Jeffrey "Jeff" Lawrence Bohl|PG|Quest Air|Wills Wing T2C

http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/para/flightinfo.html?flightId=-1436600459

http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/para/getScoring.html?scoringId=319

http://www.paraglidingforum.com/leonardo/flight/1133582

http://wxc.fai.org/module.php?id=22&date=20150304&gliderclass=hg1

http://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:davisstraub/11.4.2015/16:40

http://www.xcontest.org/world/en/ranking-hg-open/

We had a forecast of a 40% chance of rain. We could see on the forecast maps that a front was coming our way. When we looked to the north we could see the milky colored sky. The idea was to have a task that was valid but was short enough that we could get everyone on the ground before any rain showed up.

The visible satellite photo for 12:30 PM. You can see the lack of cu's to our north.

At noon the task committee changed the task because while there were plenty of cu's, there were none then to the north and the milky coloring seemed to be coming a lot nearer. Now the task was to the south to 474 and 33 and then back up to the northeast to the Sawmill turnpoint and back to Quest. The sky to the north filled in with cu's a bit later.

We had expected 7 mph westerly winds, but they were a little stronger, 9 mph to 11 mph and south south westerly. The task committee had abandoned the plan to go to the north to the Grass Roots airfield, so we didn't have a down wind leg to start the task off (the next leg would have been 20 km into the wind), but a 14 km leg into the wind (from the edge of the start cylinder to the north edge of the 3 km cylinder around the turnpoint).

We put a bigger cylinder around the turnpoint so that pilots wouldn't be flying over fields where the owner is less than pleased to have us landing. The edge of the turnpoint cylinder was just east of the Seminole glider port. Right on highway 33.

We started early at 12:30 PM because we felt that the day could end early with rain showers and thunderstorms and we wanted to give pilots the best chance of staying safe. That turned out to be a good call, not that we had any rain.

The first couple of pilots who were towed up didn't stick. I was next and was pulled toward and then flew to the southwest edge of a reasonable looking cu but found no lift. Heading back to the field, down wind, I saw a pilot turning just west of the field and that was 200 fpm. It was early and none of the pilots were getting very high or climbing very fast. We got up to cloud base at 3,800'.

With the south wind we kept drifting back to the north. Finally I had climbed to 3,900' and was at cloud base so I headed south. There was perhaps one pilot out on the course at that point. A few came with me and joined me in thermals to the south of Quest, but as it turned out, still inside the start cylinder (at least at the top of the lift).

I found 200 fpm at 2,600' just outside the start cylinder and drifted back into at 4,100', again at cloud base. Cory was following me and I saw one pilot a little out in front of me lower.

I was on the radio to my team calling out the climbs. Cory was listening. I had turned down the volume on the radio because of some early obnoxious transmission so I wasn't hearing anyone. I forgot that I turned it down, which caused some consternation as I would be the one to stop the task as meet director if there was a safety issue and I needed to hear pilots comments. Turns out there were no safety issues during the day.

There were plenty of cu's along highway 33 and just needed to be sure that I could get to the next one with enough altitude to find the lift. I came in to the lift at 2,000' next to the Seminole field and worked 150 fpm up a little more than a kilometer from the edge of the turnpoint. I needed to get higher before getting the turnpoint. I had to do another thermal to get to 3,500' and high enough to actually get to the turnpoint given that the wind was strong enough to make that difficult.

The sky was still full of cu's and turning around to go back and downwind made things much easier. I found 300 fpm and got to over 4,000'. A 150 fpm thermal 6 kilometers to the north that had three other pilots working up wind around it allowed me to climb up to 3,500', before shooting to the east to get the Sawmill turnpoint.

That looked like enough to make it in so I just kept on gliding and enjoying the tailwind to goal.

About forty minutes later Mick Howard came first into goal on his Wills Wing T2C. The topless gliders are heavily handicapped. David Lopez was next over goal, then Cory and finally Spinner, the Quest Air tandem pilot. That's everyone who made it to goal of the contestants.

Larry came in with David and said let's go back and do the course again but in the opposite direction so he and David did that and were successful.

The first leg was just too much of a headwind for the Sport 2 pilots. So that was a bit unfair. We, of course, try to make each task fair to all the pilots, including the Falcon pilot, so we would not usually include an upwind leg, especially not the first leg.

The cu's were cleared out at about 3:30 or 3:45. It was a good thing that we started early as the end ended so early.

http://soaringspot.com/gss2015/results/club/daily/day7.html

http://soaringspot.com/gss2015/results/club/total/day7.html

# Pilot Glider Total
1. Cory Barnwell Wills Wing U2 160 5007.35
2. Mick Howard Wills Wing T2C 144 4075.95
3. Matt Christensen Wills Wing U2 160 3756.62
4. Jeffery Bohl Wills Wing U2 160 3692.01
5. Jim Weitman Moyes Litesport 4 3689.30
6. John Maloney Wills Wing Sport 2 150 3217.33
7. Greg Sessa Wills Wing U2 160 3137.92
8. David Lopez Wills Wing T2C 2992.86
9. Willie Van Caulart Wills Wing Falcon 2 195 2501.97
10. Owen Mcdermott-Berryman Wills Wing U2 2277.73
11. Dana Pasternack Wills Wing Sport 2 2051.27

Replay the flights here: https://airtribune.com/2015-green-swamp-sport-klassic/blog__day_7

Dana, in eleventh, is the leading points person in contention of the US women's national sport class champion. There were three women in the competition.

Cory Barnwell did not have to fly the last day as Mick Howard could not catch him as the most points that he could have scored would be 800 given his handicap. Because of the difficult first leg, the day was not worth 1,000'. Too many pilots landed quite short.

Because this is a sport class only competition the sport class pilots were the focus of the competition and it was very friendly. Because we have a handicap system, we allow in topless gliders and pilots with lower NTSS points and ranking. We just have to keep it fair with an appropriate handicap to allow everyone a chance to do well, but not rely on the glider to give you an edge.

Kim Frutiger raised about a $1,000 for the Cloudbase Foundation with a raffle. Pilots had a great dinner at the Redwing restaurant and a local band played great music.

The winner:

Photo by Adam Bain

Larry and his new glider:

Green Swamp Sport Klassic - Day 6

Fri, Apr 10 2015, 9:42:29 pm EDT

One contestant makes it back

Green Swamp Sport Klassic 2015|Quest Air

Pilots took a relaxed approach but we got in the air quickly. The lift was only 100 fpm until we got high and then it improved. We climbed to 5,000' and cloud base. Plenty of cloud suck at the top. I headed out with Cory and either Matt or Jeff. I moved ahead and kept going past Mascotte to get under nice looking clouds west of highway 33 after a 10 kilometer glide.

The lift was not what I hoped for but I was still well over 3,000'. I went looking for something more than 75 fpm. That just brought me further down and I went on a hard search stopping for just a little over zero at 1,800'. I stayed in it until finally it turned on to 300 fpm and climbed to 4,800'. I had lost the two pilots I was with and hopefully helping.

Plenty of cu's ahead and it was easy to climb high to 5,200' just before the turnpoint at the Turnpike. Cory and another pilot were way north of the Turnpike and Greg and Tom came in under about 1,000' below.

With all that altitude it was easy to head southwest to the next turnpoint. Dave and another pilot were low out on this leg.

When I got to Center Hill I could see a rain shower/cell about 20 kilometers to the west. There was a lot of shading to the west, but still patches of sunlight east of the cell and some dark clouds east of the cell. I flew over the town of Webster at 1,600' and found very sweet lift at 100 fpm in the shade. It was so smooth and there was no gust from the cell to the west. The wind was 4 mph out of the west.

As the cell dissipated I headed out at 4,000' to the west to get the optimized turnpoint at 7 km radius. There was strong lift right at the turnpoint to 4,500'. It looked really good.

With nice clouds ahead I found good lift to 5,300' and headed for the turnpoint at the northeast end of the Green Swamp. I was hoping earlier to get rid of this turnpoint as it was right in line with the last leg and I wanted to go over the Green Swamp instead and there were nice cu's there.

As I approached the next turnpoint I could see that there were very few cu's between it and Quest Air. There was a cu to the right over the Green Swamp but then I saw Cory turning sharply to my northeast over the nursery. I headed for him.

Missed the lift there and the cu next to him disappeared. Ran to the south to get under a cu in the Green Swamp but came in too low and couldn't go too deep into the Swamp. Landed in a long field next to Sloan's Ridge Road at a farm that I very often bicycle past. Had a great time with the farmer and his friends.

Mick Howard made it in. Cory did not. Greg and Larry made it back.

http://soaringspot.com/gss2015/results/club/daily/day6.html

https://airtribune.com/2015-green-swamp-sport-klassic/blog__day_6

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Green Swamp Sport Klassic - Day 6 task

Fri, Apr 10 2015, 11:33:59 am EDT

Green Swamp Sport Klassic - Day 6

Triangle task

Green Swamp Sport Klassic 2015|Quest Air

Turnpike and highway 33 first. Starts at 1:30 PM.

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Green Swamp Sport Klassic - Day 5

Thu, Apr 9 2015, 8:58:58 pm EDT

Green Swamp Sport Klassic - Day 4

Many personal bests

Green Swamp Sport Klassic 2015|Quest Air

This mentoring is harder than it looks, at least for me. I got a new team today and my goal was to help out our star women pilot, Dana. I told Dave Lopez that I wasn't going to help him as he made goal yesterday, and therefore I needed to help the people that hadn't made goal yet. I told Cory the same thing and he went to a different frequency. Maybe the guys making goal need to get on one frequency together and not with the mentors. All the mentors agreed that they needed to help out the pilots who weren't making goal.

I also wanted to help Fernando and Willie on the Falcon. Dave, Willie and Dana are easy to spot in the air. Fernando is not.

Our team launched second and I was right with them. There was huge lift right at the end of the field and I pinned off low and climbed out quickly. The launching took all of 33 minutes, or about a minute a pilot. We've got four planes for 30+ pilots.

After 3,000' at 300 fpm the lift slowed down and the gaggle over launch filled in with most of the pilots. We climbed to 3,900' and I had Dana and Dave with me. Fernando I could not find. Willie had been with me but wandered off, I don't know exactly why. Maybe tomorrow I'll be able to ask him.

Dana was just above me and I said let's go toward Mascotte when we got to almost 4,000'. I could see Tom and three other pilots circling there so it was time to get going. She seemed responsive to my suggestions.

She came in low and I could see Willie way low but working lift. Tom, Larry and I were working better lift much higher and it wasn't long before I was at cloud base at 4,700'. Dana was working her way up steadily so I pushed forward to the next clouds to report on what was ahead.

The lift was less than 100 fpm under the next two clouds so after a few minutes and at 4,000' I pushed north northwest downwind to clouds just passed small fires. No lift over the fires but the clouds were working a little. This turned into a general area of lift.

Dana, Tom, Larry, Dave Lopez and four or five other pilots were low and circling. Dana further to the south with a couple of them. I had headed upwind to the east under a cloud street and stayed high.

I went back to Dana three times where she was circling with a few others but there was 400 fpm down above them. I'd go back to the north and tell her that as soon as she felt comfortable she should join us further north to get better lift.

She was finally able to get to where we were and David Lopez and I climbed to 4,800' at 300 fpm. She was about 1,000' below us. At cloud base we headed to the prisons to the north northwest.

Got to the prisons at 4,200' and found light lift. Now the idea was to wait for Dana. David and I were out in front and there was no reason for him to wait. I just needed to wait to stay with Dana. I headed southeast away from the course line hoping that he would get the idea and head off on his own. There were plenty of cu's around.

Losing just three hundred feet on my little glide back I returned to the area of lift but it was not there. I went searching for it under good looking clouds but suddenly there was sink every where.

Now racing to find the lift I lost 2,500' before I hit some weak lift as 1,700' Suddenly there was David Lopez right next to me at my altitude. He apparently had followed me around when I wasn't trying to climb up but wait for Dana.

A few turns that averaged 35 fpm and then I just lost it circling a little to the east of it when it was moving northwest apparently. In 500 fpm down I was quickly on the ground. David found it and climbed up.

The pilots and mentors behind us soon caught up with us and a good number of them made it to goal. As I write this they haven't reported in yet.

Cory, Dave Lopez, Tom, Mick, Matt, Greg and Larry at goal.

http://soaringspot.com/gss2015/results/club/daily/day5.html

https://airtribune.com/2015-green-swamp-sport-klassic/blog__day_5

Dana continued to do well without my mentoring and undoubtedly had her personal best.

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Green Swamp Sport Klassic - Day 5 live tracking

Thu, Apr 9 2015, 12:47:53 pm EDT

Green Swamp Sport Klassic - Day 5

It's working

Green Swamp Sport Klassic 2015|Quest Air

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Starts at 1:30 PM EDT.

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Green Swamp Sport Klassic - Day 5 task

Thu, Apr 9 2015, 11:29:14 am EDT

Green Swamp Sport Klassic - Day 5

A personal best day

Green Swamp Sport Klassic 2015|Quest Air

Over open areas to the Savana airfield turnpoint, then a leg to the west to keep us out of Ocala airspace, then the field next to Williston airfield. Five kilometer circle around Dunnellon.

114.5 km.

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Green Swamp Sport Klassic - Day 4

Wed, Apr 8 2015, 10:49:24 pm EDT

Another fabulous day in paradise

Bob Caldwell|Green Swamp Sport Klassic 2015|Quest Air|Tom Lanning

The task:

Four turnpoints. A zig zag task assuming an east wind. Cu's started popping before the 10 AM pilot meeting. The start time was moved back again to 1:30 PM to make sure that we had plenty of lift for the pilots who launched first.

The forecast was for good lift, the kind we always get here in Florida with a high cloud base and light east winds. So far we have had east winds every day.

Tom Lanning was off first and I was off at about sixth with my team right behind me. There was 100+fpm lift at 1,400' so I pinned off and slowly climbed up to over 4,000' as plenty of pilots joined me just over the launch area. This time I only had to spend 40 minutes over Quest waiting for the team to congeal up at cloud base at 4,600'. Matt, Glen and I took off to the northwest with three pilots in front of us and plenty of cu's along the course line.

I glided 9 km to the nursery west of Mascotte. The three pilots in front turned north at Mascotte and headed for some good looking cu's. Down to 2,200' I turned over the middle of the nursery and found 140 fpm. Matt joined me. We saw Glen low on the east side of the nursery suddenly start climbing well. We shaded over there and found 250 fpm to 4,600' and went on glide for the first turnpoint at Center Hill. Matt was just behind me and I suggested to Glen that he climb up to cloud base before leaving.

It was a 10 km glide to the turnpoint and around to the second leg to a cloud where I saw three pilots, including Larry and Greg turning. I was down to 2,500' before I got to the lift, but I thought that the glide was pretty good at 16:1 with an average sink of 220 fpm. Matt behind me didn't get as good a glide and didn't get the first waypoint before he joined us in the lift.

It was broken and weak at 150 fpm. I watched Larry high head for the next cloud and waited to see if he would turn. I was hanging with Matt and Greg, and Tom was circling just off the deck below us. I headed for Larry when I saw him circling but Matt headed back to the turnpoint. I didn't know at the time that he had not made the turnpoint, so I could not understand what the hell he was doing.

Greg, Jim Weitman and I climbed in Larry's thermal at 300 fpm to 4,600'. I didn't know what was up with Larry, but it turned out that he couldn't help any of his team as his microphone cable was broken. So he was helping Greg help Jim.

As they all headed to the second turnpoint to the south I headed back north to find Matt and get him going. He was circling low over Tom and with David Lopez. They were in weak 60 fpm lift and I came over them and joined them in it. I needed to relax and stay with Matt. Glen was behind but getting slowly to the first turnpoint.

I went south a short distance to a nice looking cloud, found 250 fpm and climbed to 4,600' as they all came in under me. At cloud base I told Matt that I was going to go to the big dark cloud south down the course line and that as soon as he got to cloud base to come join me. After a six kilometer glide I was in 350 fpm with Larry, Greg and Jim who had by then made the turnpoint only 3 km to my south and were back in this nice thermal heading to the next turnpoint to the north northwest.

At 4,800' and cloud base I went south to the turnpoint and then came back to the same area where I got up to find Matt not very high. After fifteen minutes he finally found a nice thermal and we left for the turnpoint, for me again. Glen was there but 1,000' below us as we took the turnpoint and headed back to the north to see if we could find the strong lift one more time.

I found 132 fpm and Matt came over to me as Glen landed just south of us. I climbed to 3,100' and said I'd go look for better lift to the north under good looking clouds. I didn't find it and landed. Matt landed soon thereafter, both of us just short of the third turnpoint.

Larry, Greg, and Jim struggled just south of the Cheryl (third) turnpoint (about where we landed) and Cory caught up with them. Only a few pilots made it into goal.

Bob Caldwell«rcaldwell» writes:

Shot this looking toward Orlando from the gulf coast at 1 EDT. 38,000 ft. Sweet looking sky, hope soaring was great.

http://soaringspot.com/gss2015/results/club/daily/day4.html

http://soaringspot.com/gss2015/results/club/total/day4.html

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Green Swamp Sport Klassic - Day 3

Tue, Apr 7 2015, 10:26:37 pm EDT

A beautiful day a long ways away from the rain that came later to Quest Air

Green Swamp Sport Klassic 2015|Greg Dinauer|Larry Bunner|Quest Air|Tom Lanning

The sport class pilots on the task committee called a task that was an extension of the first and second day's task using a 3 km cylinder around Gross with a 20 kilometer leg to Inverness to the northwest. The last leg would take us over wild country, swamps, river and forest. I thought that this should prove interesting for sport class pilots.

My team was scheduled to launch first at 1 PM. The sky was full of cu's and had been since early morning. The wind was actually out of the southeast so I saw no reason not to get going right away. I was the first pilot to launch at 12:58 PM hoping to help out my team by stating where the lift was.

I was pulled almost 4 km to the southeast to get me on the upwind side of a large black cu. There was no lift all the way out and I just felt a little bit as I released and went to the edge of the cu. There was lift there and I climbed to cloud base, 3,600' at 200 fpm. I called out my location and my climb rates, and continued to do so for the next hour and a half.

Pilots were pulled up after me, including Larry Bunner. They all landed fairly quickly as I went upwind further southeast to get under forming clouds. Pilots kept being pulled up and landing. Finally a few began to stick including Larry again and Greg Dinauer and a few of the sport class guys.

All my team had to go to the back of the line and things were slow down below. It was an hour and forty minutes of circling near the field before I had one team mate, Matt Christensen, that I could help make it to goal. We left together at 4,000'.

There were plenty of pilots out on the course before us as we were near the end of the leaving pilots, but we didn't see too many. The rest of the team was behind us.

I raced ahead to spot better lift for Matt telling him to take the weaker lift that I left behind to stay high. I got down to 1,500' but found 150 fpm and called out my position. Soon a pilot that I thought was Matt came in under me but wasn't climbing. As I got above 3,000' I saw Tom Lanning just above me and then another pilot came in to join us just below me.

Well it turned out that this pilot was Matt and I was just waiting around for the pilot way down below who I thought was Matt. When he asked if we should go after Tom left (and we hadn't really been gaining much as I was just waiting around) I finally realized who was who and off we went.

There were plenty of cu's lined up going toward our turnpoint to the west. Tom was hanging around going slow to see if he could pick up a pilot to mentor. The one he tried to drag up a few times refused to climb with him, so Tom was on his own.

I raced ahead to spot the lift and got down to 1,500' again over a pond but under a black cloud and found 300 fpm. I radioed to Matt and he was soon a couple of hundred feet below me.

I had to leave to escape the cloud suck and went ahead toward the turnpoint and a cloud about a kilometer to the north of it. Matt could easily follow me and see if he needed to go with me or shade a little to the north to the next set of clouds. I went under the dark cloud but didn't find any lift. Tom was just to the north.

Not finding lift meant I had to head toward some cu's further away and over unfriendly territory. I could see Tom about 1,000' above me and watched to see if he was getting anything. Matt was behind but high and I told him to stay high under the clouds to the north.

Down again to 1,500' over the river I came in under Tom as he turned over a small patch of sunlight on a open forest plantation. There was a bit of lift coming off it and I stuck with it at 123 fpm. Matt stayed high and kept going. Tom was high enough to continue even though he didn't find any great lift in the next clouds.

Getting to 3,200' I moved to way, way left of the course line to get over open fields and under better looking clouds. Over the highway I spotted a bird further west climbing very fast. I was just a few seconds and I was in the good lift, which provided plenty to get the last 11 km into goal.

Greg, Larry, Tom, Matt, Cory, and Jim had made it in already. A few landed nearby. Others came in later.

Day score: http://soaringspot.com/gss2015/results/club/daily/day3.html

Cumulative: http://soaringspot.com/gss2015/results/club/total/day3.html

Blog and Live Tracking: https://airtribune.com/2015-green-swamp-sport-klassic/blog__day_3

https://airtribune.com/play/505/2d

Looks like Matt won the day.

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Green Swamp Sport Klassic - Day 2

Mon, Apr 6 2015, 9:30:15 pm EDT

No monsters in the air for us

cart|Green Swamp Sport Klassic 2015|Greg Dinauer|Larry Bunner|Quest Air

The forecast was for again east southeast winds at 8 mph. Good lift, but the chance of thunderstorms late in the day.

With the chance of thunderstorm activity the task committee calls at earlier launch at 12:30 PM. But the question was will it be soarable at 12:30? There was a layer of high cloud above that the models don't take into account so the heating started up late as those clouds went away.

I have seen this happen before where the desire to get an earlier start because of possibly late deterioration gets us going when the conditions aren't really ready. Larry Bunner, mentor, and head of the task committee, launched first and Greg Dinauer, another mentor ,was lined up right behind him but had to get out of line because of a flat on the cart. He was placed back in the sixth spot.

Larry landed out (amazingly upwind). Greg was waved off early but in very very light lift and had to work hard to stay up as numerous pilots didn't and landed back at the field. The wind was 9 or 10 mph out of the east.

I relaxed the whole time because it sure didn't look good to me and didn't launch until we got through all the first flights of the all the pilots and the line was filling up with reflights. Larry was soon back at launch.

Lift was still weak when I went up but got off early and climbed up. Went to a vertical cu to the southwest and got up again from low. Now there was good lift over the field and I could see pilots getting up. I went over a joined them.

The start was open, whenever you leave the five kilometer start cylinder, your time starts. Given that it seemed to get better as the day progressed, I hung around in the start cylinder trying to find my team and could only raise Mick on the radio. My team was near the last team to launch.

Finally headed out with a few pilots and there were plenty of nice cu's along the course line to the northwest, more cu's to the south of the course line.

It was three thermals to the goal field progressively stronger going from 200 fpm to 500 fpm. I could see pilots working lift all about me. It looked like they would be able to make the goal.

Results (so far): http://soaringspot.com/gss2015/results/club/daily/day2.html

Live tracking, replay, notes and pictures from the day: https://airtribune.com/2015-green-swamp-sport-klassic/blog__day_2

It turned out to be a spectacular day and the task was too short, but after yesterday it was good to have a bunch of pilots in goal. Larry made it to goal and then headed back to Quest Air upwind. He got within a mile of Quest.

Live tracking with Airtribune seems to be working and we found a couple of pilots who were lost due to instrument failure because of their tracks.

Looks like a lot of pilots are having a good time.

There was plenty of thunder and rain to our west along the coast and some to our east later in the day.

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2015 Green Swamp Sport Klassic »

April 5, 2015, 10:32:52 pm EDT

2015 Green Swamp Sport Klassic

18 mph winds at 2,000'

Davis Straub|Green Swamp Sport Klassic 2015|Greg Dinauer|Jeffrey "Jeff" Lawrence Bohl|Joe Schmucker|John Alden|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Larry Bunner|Quest Air|Rick Brown|Tom Lanning

Despite a NAM/XCSkies forecast for 7 mph winds at 2,000' at 2 PM, it was 18 mph at 2,200' at 2 PM. Launch conditions were relatively mild with winds about 10 mph on the ground. The wind at 2,000' was supposed to be east southeast. The winds were northeast on the ground and in the air. The air was supposed to be rising at between 700 to 900 fpm, I didn't find any lift on my first attempt and about an average of 10 fpm on my second. Larry was able to climb up from 900' to 4,000' in 450 fpm.

The task was stopped with the report from me of the winds aloft and increasing winds with the northerly component at launch. Should be a low scoring day.

The scoring is completely screwed up so far: http://soaringspot.com/gss2015/results/club/daily/day1.html

Day 1, yesterday, Sport Class, Preliminary results
Davis OzGAP 160, Task time: 07:00:00
QUEST - GROSS
Task length: 38.4km
# At Launch: 11, # Who Flew: 8, # At Goal: 0, Total Distance Flown: 7 km, Average Distance Flown: 1 km, Nominal Distance: 20 km, Minimal Distance: 5 km, Nominal Goal Percentage: 20%, Nominal Time: 1.0 hour, Minimal Time: 24.0 hour, Day Quality: 0.011, Launch Validity: 0.815, Distance Validity: 0.029, Time Validity: 0.491, Pilots with speed points: 0, Handicapped, Available Distance Points: 10, Available Speed Points: 1, Available Start/Departure points: 0, Available Arrival Points: 0, Tmin: 24:00:00,
#CNPilotTeamGliderHcapStartDist.Points
1.110Willie Van CaulartCANWills WingFalcon 2 19514513:44:185.0km12.48
2.105Greg SessaUSAWills WingU2 16010014:45:496.8km10.28
DNF.126*Adrian SanchezUSAWills Wing Ultra Sport 1471065.0km9.12
4.112Owen McDermott-BerrymanCANWills WingU210013:29:075.0km8.60
DNF.114*Cory BarnwellUSAWills WingU2 1601005.0km8.60
DNF.402*Davis StraubUSAWills WingT2C 1441005.0km8.60
DNF.101*Jim WeitmanUSAMoyesLitesport 41005.0km8.60
DNF.118*Richard WestmorelandUSAWills wingRam Air 1461005.0km8.60
DNF.121*Clive BeddallCANMoyes2006 Litespeed 4S1000
DNF.113*John AldenUSAWills WingU2-1451000
DNF.107*Jeffery BohlUSAWills WingU2 1601000
DNF.108*Rick BrownUSAWills WingU21000
DNF.403*Larry BunnerUSAWills WingT2C1441000
DNF.122*Matt ChristensenUSAAFH 22800
DNF.116*Glenn CurranUSAWills WingU21000
DNF.401*Greg DinauerUSAAerosCombat C-12.71000
DNF.106*Michelle HaagUSAWills WingSport 21060
DNF.124*Mick HowardUSAWillsWing T2C 144800
DNF.119*Spencer KindtUSANorthWingLiberty1000
DNF.404*Tom LanningUSAWills WingT2C 1361000
DNF.109*David LopezUSAWills WingT2C800
DNF.104*Lance MacleanUSAWills Wing Sport 21060
DNF.103*stephan mentlerUSAMoyesLitesport1000
DNF.102*Antonio MercadoUSAWills WingU21000
DNF.115*Fernando MilaniUSAWills WingSport 21060
DNF.125*Kelly MyrkleUSAAeromot. Super Ximango1060
DNF.111*Dana PasternackUSAWills WingSport 21060
DNF.104*Joe SchmuckerUSAWills WingSport 2 1761060
DNF.123*Jonny ThompsonUSAA-151000
DNF.117*Alex TrochezUSAWills WingU2 1441000
DNF.120*michael williamsUSAWills WingSport 21060
* File not yet delivered
DNF = Did not fly

Looks like a nice day tomorrow with a southeast wind.

2015 Green Swamp Sport Klassic »

March 30, 2015, 8:45:51 EDT

2015 Green Swamp Sport Klassic

It starts next Sunday

Green Swamp Sport Klassic 2015|Quest Air

http://ozreport.com/2015GreenSwampSportKlassic.php

Twenty two pilots are signed up. In addition, we have four mentors.

https://airtribune.com/2015-green-swamp-sport-klassic/pilots

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February 16, 2015, 8:42:59 EST

2015 Green Swamp Sport Klassic

The next deadline is Sunday, March 15th

Green Swamp Sport Klassic 2015|Quest Air

https://airtribune.com/2015-green-swamp-sport-klassic/pilots

Seventeen pilots have entered. All but two are actually confirmed (they have completed the three step process):

http://ozreport.com/2015GreenSwampSportKlassic.php

The entry fee increases after March 15th by $25. You must complete all three steps to qualify for the $200 entry fee.

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February 13, 2015, 11:52:40 pm EST

2015 Green Swamp Sport Klassic

The first deadline is this Sunday, February 15th

Green Swamp Sport Klassic 2015|Quest Air

https://airtribune.com/2015-green-swamp-sport-klassic/pilots

Fifteen pilots have entered. Eleven are confirmed (they have completed the three step process):

http://ozreport.com/2015GreenSwampSportKlassic.php

The entry fee increases after the 15th by $25. You must complete all three steps to qualify for the lowest entry fee.

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February 5, 2015, 8:40:23 EST

2015 Green Swamp Sport Klassic

All types of hang gliders

Facebook|Green Swamp Sport Klassic 2015|Quest Air

https://airtribune.com/2015-green-swamp-sport-klassic/pilots

http://ozreport.com/2015GreenSwampSportKlassic.ph

https://www.facebook.com/events/475511969257990/

You can fly a Class 1,2,4,5 hang glider in the competition. We handicap all the gliders for a fair competition.

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February 3, 2015, 8:24:58 EST

2015 Green Swamp Sport Klassic

The first deadline is February 15th

Green Swamp Sport Klassic 2015|Quest Air

https://airtribune.com/2015-green-swamp-sport-klassic/pilots

Fifteen pilots have entered. Seven are confirmed (they have completed the three step process):

http://ozreport.com/2015GreenSwampSportKlassic.php

The entry fee increases after the 15th by $25. You must complete all three steps to qualify for the lowest entry fee.

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January 12, 2015, 8:57:42 EST

2015 Green Swamp Sport Klassic

Pay by February 15th for the least cost

Dragonfly|Green Swamp Sport Klassic 2015|Quest Air

The first deadline is only a month away.

http://ozreport.com/2015GreenSwampSportKlassic.php

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2015 Green Swamp Sport Klassic - mentors and sessions »

December 22, 2014, 9:31:04 EST

2015 Green Swamp Sport Klassic - mentors and sessions

Steve Kroop will lead two instrument sections

Green Swamp Sport Klassic 2015|Larry Bunner|Quest Air|Steve Kroop

Flytec 6030|Green Swamp Sport Klassic 2015|Larry Bunner|Quest Air|Steve Kroop

We have added mentors and instructional sessions to the Green Swamp Sport Klassic. Steve Kroop of Flytec USA will lead two sessions on flight instruments. Those prior to the 6030 and the 6030. Larry Bunner, Greg Dinaur and I will act as mentors and I have asked other experienced competition pilots if they are interested.

These pilots will be on hand to help and fly with you each day. There won't be teams, but the mentors will be happy to communicate in the air with up to four pilots each day to help them compete. The mentors will be assigned to different pilots each day.

Mentors will also lead discussion sessions on competition issues, tactics and strategy.

If you are interested in Sport Class competition or just want to try out and see if you like competing, sign up here:

http://ozreport.com/2015GreenSwampSportKlassic.php

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November 10, 2014, 9:11:23 PST

2015 Green Swamp Sport Klassic

The web site is up

Facebook|Green Swamp Sport Klassic 2015|Quest Air

http://ozreport.com/2015GreenSwampSportKlassic.php

https://www.facebook.com/events/475511969257990/

Registration will open in December.

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