Pilots on the grid sharing their thoughts on the South African Gliding Nationals 2024.
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Thank you for all the behind the scenes updates. Much appreciated.
Jannie Brink thank you for good food!!😁
Day 5 Update: Congratulations to the winners of Day 5 of the South African Gliding Nationals. The results are as follows:
Club Class: 1. Morné Strauss - 119.92 km/h
2. Jason Adriaan - 104.31 km/h
3. Rene Coetzee - 99.36 km/h
18m Class: 1. Oscar Goudriaan - 128.29 km/h
2. Rene Lans - 127.12 km/h
3. Holger Karow - 126.75 km/h
2-Seater Class: 1. Jonker & Jonker - 128.66 km/h
2. Goudriaan & Geisen - 121.64 km/h
3. Lessle & Stheeman
Live tracking and tasks for day 6 are available on:
www.soaringspot.com/en_gb/sanats2024potch/results
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Well done Oscar!
Day 4 Update: Congratulations to the winners of yesterday's flying.
Club Class: 1. Wayne Schmidt - 105.68 kph, 300.96 km
2. Jason Adriaan - 95.12 km/h, 300.96 km
3. Rene Coetzee - 95.32 km/h, 300.96 km
18m. Class: 1. Oscar Goudriaan - 125.81 km/h, 390.84 km
2. Mark Holliday - 115.82 km/h, 390.84 km
3. Pasi Pulkkinen - 123.52 km/h, 390.84 km
2-Seater class: 1. Goudriaan & Geisen - 123.81 km/h, 390.84 km
2. Daly jr. & Jonker - 117.30 km/h, 390.84 km
3. Jonker & Jonker - 117.33 km/h, 390.84 km
Live tracking for Day 5 is available on Glide and Seek:
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Well done
👏👏Well done
On July 27th and August 10th, 2024, Laurence Hardman, John Coutts, and Sven Olivier set out to fly from Worcester to Durban in a Janus B and two JS-1Bs.
Here’s their epic story of these ambitious flights, as told by Laurence.
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Reference to Water - water ballast to improve Penetration - speed cf better climb rate. Even in flat plains, a bump in it and the right wind direction and stable/unstable layers with increasing height can propagate wave. Hills near the top of St Vincents Gulf , The Hummocks, would produce wave , gliding at Waikerie 200 kms away could use it.
Well done Laurence. Wishing you all the best.
Matthew Lyle
Day 3 Update: Tasks canceled due to poor weather.
Wednesday 2nd of October, Aviatech FAPS - Potchefstroom will be presenting a crash course on flight safety at the Akavlieg - Potch Gliding clubhouse. The course starts at 18h00.
RSVP at info@aviatechfaps.co.za
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Update on today's tasks
18h00 pm?
Congratulations to the winners of Day 2 of the South African Gliding Nationals.
The results are as follows:
Club Class:
1. Jason Adriaan - 89,76 kph distance 157.09 km.
2. Wayne Schmidt - 88.65 kph, distance 155.14 km.
3. Albert Willemse - 86.15 kph, distance 150.76 km.
18m. Class.
1. Mark Holliday - 111.2 kph distance 222,2 km.
2. Oscar Goudriaan - 111,0 kph, distance 222,14 km.
3. Rene Lans - 108,8 kph, distance 217,6 km.
2-seater class
1. Jonker M. & U - 111.1 kph,. distance 222.3 km.
2. Daly/Jonker - 107.9 kph, distance 215 km.
3. Rendla/Muckensnabl - 79,1 kph, distance 229 km.
Glider tracking for today's tasks are available on Glide and Seek.
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Well done, keep the news coming for us flying in cold wet wet wet UK. Winter is upon us
Belgian beer . . .
Highlights from a windy grid on Day 2. The active task for today is Task B.
Weather conditions are soarable but remain less than ideal.
All tasks for the day can be found in the link below.
tinyurl.com/yc77tz35
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Great to see that some scores could be posted today. Well done all of you.
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Day 1 Update:
After launching a sniffer around noon, conditions didn't look promising, although all gliders were launched.
It quickly became clear that the Club class gliders wouldn't complete their task. While launches continued for the 18m class, the Club class task was canceled, and the 18m and 2-seater tasks were amended to the Club class.
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Rainy weather limited flying for the official practice day. The Bokke beating Argentina 48-7 made up for the inadequate flying conditions.
Tasks for Sunday the 29th are as follows:
Club Class: 238,7KM. Gypsum Dam, Intersection, Bodenstein, Lekwena, Boskop, Potchefstroom
Seater & 18m. Classes: 273,8KM – N12 Traffic, Intersection, Bodenstein, Enselspruit, Boskop, Potchefstroom.
First launches at 12pm.
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