Oz Report
Volume 18, Number 184Friday, September 19 2014
McCall RV Resort, Idaho, USA
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"Toto, I have a feeling we're not in Kansas anymore."
- In this issue:
Cloudbase Foundation and the Boys and Girls Club of Casa Grande Women's world ranking Dave May in Brasilia 2014 Santa Cruz Flats Race Aussie dollar more competitive
Cloudbase Foundation and the Boys and Girls Club of Casa Grande
Thu, Sep 18 2014, 8:09:34 am MDT(Francisco Grande, Casa Grande, Arizona, USA)
Glen Volk|Joe Bostik|Larry Bunner
We have raised over $5000 for the Casa Grande Boys and Girls club for scholarships as it costs kids $45/month to go for about three hours each day to the club. They have about 400 kids there every school day.
Joe Bostik made a $1,000 matching pledge. The Cloudbase Foundation made a $1,000 matching pledge. Glen Volk donated $500. We basically raised over $4,000 to make it more than 4 to 1 for the CBF matching grant.
Larry Bunner (Cloudbase Foundation board member) and I hustled for the money at the opening pilot meeting, one on one.
They really appreciate the funding here in Casa Grande. Larry met with the Boys and Girls Club director on Tuesday and is trying to interest the mayor's office. We had dinner Tuesday night at the restaurant owned by the president of the Boys and Girls Club.
3 topics in this article: Glen Volk, Joe Bostik, Larry Bunner
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Women's world ranking
Thu, Sep 18 2014, 8:10:08 am MDTAlexandra "Sasha" Serebrennikova|CIVL|Claudia Mejia|Corinna Schwiegershausen|Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet|Yoko Isomoto
http://civlrankings.fai.org/FL.aspx?a=326&ladder_id=1&ranking_date=2014-09-01&female=1&
Rank | Name | Nation | Points |
---|---|---|---|
1
o: 68
|
Alexandra Serebrennikova
CIVL ID: 30169
|
Russia | 163.9 |
2
o: 101
|
Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet
CIVL ID: 6325
|
France | 138.2 |
3
o: 105
|
Corinna Schwiegershausen
CIVL ID: 1377
|
Germany | 136.4 |
4
o: 168
|
Yoko Isomoto
CIVL ID: 12517
|
Japan | 92.9 |
5
o: 190
|
Claudia Mejia
CIVL ID: 11343
|
Colombia | 83.2 |
6 topics in this article: Alexandra "Sasha" Serebrennikova, CIVL, Claudia Mejia, Corinna Schwiegershausen, Francoise Dieuzeide-Banet, Yoko Isomoto
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Dave May in Brasilia
Thu, Sep 18 2014, 8:10:27 am MDTvideo
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2014 Santa Cruz Flats Race
Thu, Sep 18 2014, 10:31:33 pm MDT(Francisco Grande, Casa Grande, Arizona, USA)
Belinda Boulter|Bruce Barmakian|Chris Arai|Flytec 6030|Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr|Kraig Coomber|Robin Hamilton|Santa Cruz Flats Race 2014|Wills Wing|Wills Wing T2C|Zac Majors
http://soaringspot.com/scfr14/
The remnants of the hurricane left the area leaving behind enough moisture that we had good looking cu's starting around 9:30 am and lasting all day. The forecast is for the moisture to hang around for a few more days so perhaps we'll have more cu's on Friday and Saturday.
With light to no winds in the forecast, cu's, cloud base maybe up to 7,000' and moderately good lift we called a task back and forth for 60 miles:
The sport class had a smaller version of this task.
We started launching at 12:30 PM with the first start window at 1:50 PM. The lift was light at first but as we got higher it improved until we were all above 6,000' just staying out of the cu's. We would find 200 to 300 fpm near cloud base, nothing to suck us up into the cloud.
Not much of a start at 1:50 as we got low, so almost everyone came back and found much better lift and took the 2:10 start time. There were cu's every where on the course.
I was high next to Zac and we raced as fast as possible to the Casa Grande mountain but the lift there was piss poor. We were working junk when my vario died. Turns out I had created the perfect storm to cause the battery to be flat.
I had installed a 16 GB SD card that also serves as a wifi server in my Flytec 6030 (allowing me to transmit track logs to my phone where they can be emailed to the scorekeeper). The server portion turns off after 5 minutes to keep the battery from being drained if it doesn't hook up with a client. But, I had placed my phone in my boot and turned it on to run the Livetracker24 app with the phone plugged into an add on battery. Previously I had used a dedicated tracker24 but Belinda was complaining that it would die after an hour.
But I had mistakenly left the wifi setting turned on on the phone so that the phone and the wifi server on the SD card in the 6030 were communicating and keeping the wifi server running and running down the battery.
With the 6030 dead I headed back toward the Francisco Grande hoping to get there high enough to land and leave my glider set up. I landed about a kilometer short and hiked the glider back.
Meanwhile pilots who weren't fooling around with wifi servers in their 6030's were out on the course and doing well. We got to see Kraig, then Bruce, then Robin all come in far ahead of the other pilots.
All and all a great flying day after two days of not flying.
# | Pilot | Team | Glider | Total |
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1. | Kraig Coomber | USA | Moyes RX 3.5 Technora | 2874.23 |
2. | Robin Hamilton | USA | Moyes RX 3.5 | 2853.87 |
3. | Michael Bilyk | USA | Moyes RX 3.5 Technora | 2669.18 |
4. | Rudy Gotés | MEX | Moyes RX 3.5 | 2524.98 |
5. | Jon Durand | AUS | Moyes RX 3.5 Technora | 2494.27 |
6. | Olav Opsanger | NOR | Moyes RX 3.5 Technora | 2431.27 |
7. | Bruce Barmakian | USA | Wills Wing T2C 136 | 2388.53 |
8. | Matt Barker | USA | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 2309.79 |
9. | Zac Majors | USA | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 2308.08 |
10. | Chris Arai | USA | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 2267.69 |
11 topics in this article: Belinda Boulter, Bruce Barmakian, Chris Arai, Flytec 6030, Jon "Jonny" Durand jnr, Kraig Coomber, Robin Hamilton, Santa Cruz Flats Race 2014, Wills Wing, Wills Wing T2C, Zac Majors
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Aussie dollar more competitive
Thu, Sep 18 2014, 10:47:08 pm MDTeconomy
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2014/09/18/business/18reuters-australia-economy-mining.html
Rock-bottom rates and the slowdown of offshore money into mining have also helped drag the Australian dollar to six-month lows, easing competitive pressure on a host of sectors.
It's especially welcome for tourism and education, sectors that had struggled with the high dollar. Tourism alone generates A$30 billion a year in export revenue and employs more than 540,000 Australians.
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