Team USA Report – WGC Day 4
August 21, 2024 Very hot weather (107 F is severe even by central Texas standards) continues at the 38th WGC. Mercifully, it did not yield the blue conditions of yesterday: [...]
Team USA Report – WGC Day 3
August 20, 2024 A remarkable day today at WGC2024 - among the more notable in the long history of contests here. With a vast high- pressure system sitting almost on [...]
Team USA Report – WGC Day 2
August 19, 2024 It was hotter and a bit bluer today, a trend that is predicted to continue in central Texas. (Numbers like 107F are being heard in tomorrow’s [...]
Team USA Report – WGC Day 1
The first competition day of the 38th World Gliding Championships in Uvalde TX featured genuine 'Uvalde weather'. For the uninitiated, this means conditions that are borderline miserable on the [...]
WGC Uvalde – WATCH LIVE NOW
The World Gliding Championships (WGC) in Uvalde, Texas starts Sunday, August 18th, and you can catch all of the action in several places. It is quite an honor to [...]
38th FAI World Gliding Championships – Uvalde Texas
Uvalde, Texas August 14 – 31, 2024 #USTeamUvalde2024 The competition will be heating up literally and figuratively this month in Uvalde, Texas as the United [...]
WGC Practice Week Finished – Ready To Race!
Greetings from Narromine, Australia!This is your captain speaking… I always wanted to say that.Team USA is ready to race!Yesterday was the last practice day of the 5 day practice period. [...]
Team USA WGC Report
This is my first WGC, and my first time Down Under, so here are some early impressions after a few days in country. Arriving in Sydney and spending a day [...]
Team USA WGC Report
G’Day Race Fans! Today should mark official Practice Day #2. However, we awoke to rain showers, so no official task has been set. My name is Leah Condon and along [...]
Simulation-based Online Flight Training Experience (SOFTE)
A new phase of the SSA’s initiative to improve glider flight training through increased adoption of simulation-based flight training (Condor). The overall purpose of this initiative is to advance the [...]