Peter and Mandy Temple's blog from the World Gliding Championship
Prievidza, Slovakia - June/July 2010


Wednesday, June 23, 2010

They're Flying

The whole Australian Team is currently flying, together for the first time.
Mike and Allan both had scenarios on the grid. Allan's borrowed PDA will talk to him in Simulator mode, but when he selected WinPilot it asked for a password. So frantic calls to Germany, we are waiting for a reply...
Mike had a loose wire that was quickly reattached with tape.
Pete has just called 4kts to 2000m, which matches the forecast.
The wind though is very strong (from the North) with one forecast predicting 40kts at 3000'.
However because of the strong  wind we do have lovely looking streets of cloud to the North in the direction of the task.
All of the pilots are flying with Spot Trackers and there is going to be a link to each of them on the Team Dingo website.
Pete's Spot link is at;
http://share.findmespot.com/shared/faces/viewspots.jsp?glId=0zplSHdUNx4fszPCASyrqH45qQeZ36zx5
There are also some photos on the website in Gallery.
http://www.teamdingo.com.au/TeamDingo2010/index.html

2 comments:

  1. Oz newspaper headline today: "PETER TEMPLE WINS" (literary award). Sounds like an omen to me!

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  2. nice paddock! Spot satellite view works well

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