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topic: US Nationals 2016 (25 articles)
2016 Big Spring Nationals
August 13, 2016, 5:59:25 pm CST -0500
2016 Big Spring Nationals
Day seven
Blue Sky|Facebook|Niki Longshore|US Nationals 2016
No task. After the front came through and stalled to the south, the winds were up to an average of 20 mph gusting to 28 mph. Our limit is 25 mph. The winds were also northeast and we might have tried a south launch if that strength of winds were out of the south. But northeast is a problematic direction for launching, 45 degrees to the taxi way.
Also the morning cu's gave way to a blue sky with an inversion at 5,000' at 2 PM. Higher later. Also there were cu-nimbs to the southwest south of our goal but with outpouring from the top running to the northeast.
Three tasks only in Big Spring this year. We've never not had at least six days of flying. Pilots flew on the practice day (and the day before was very nice) and we flew on the day that the task was called looking at the radar screens.
We will be asking pilots if they want to come back to Big Spring next year before we make a commitment to run the competition again. We will be asking for your input.
Sport class:
Open:
4 topics in this article: Blue Sky, Facebook, Niki Longshore, US Nationals 2016
2016 Big Spring Nationals
August 12, 2016, 9:22:44 pm CST -0500
2016 Big Spring Nationals
Day six
Niki Longshore|US Nationals 2016
Photo by Niki Longshore.
2 topics in this article: Niki Longshore, US Nationals 2016
2016 Big Spring Nationals
August 12, 2016, 9:21:41 pm CST -0500
2016 Big Spring Nationals
Sport results from the third task
competition|Niki Longshore|US Nationals 2016
https://airtribune.com/2016-big-spring-nationals/results
Task 3:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Distance | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Greg Sessa | Wills Wing U2 160 | 03:09:16 | 155.53 | 1000 |
2 | Carlos Alvarado | Wills Wing U2 160 | 03:21:01 | 155.53 | 888 |
3 | Niki Longshore | Moyes Gecko | 03:30:44 | 155.53 | 833 |
4 | Bruno Schnedl | Wills Wing U2 145 | 50.46 | 340 | |
5 | Erik Grabowski | Wills Wing U2 145 | 44.52 | 323 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Nat | Glider | T 1 | T 2 | T 3 | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Carlos Alvarado | M | GUA | Wills Wing U2 160 | 979 | 489 | 888 | 2356 |
2 | Erik Grabowski | M | USA | Wills Wing U2 145 | 892 | 1000 | 323 | 2215 |
3 | Niki Longshore | F | USA | Moyes Gecko | 817 | 560 | 833 | 2210 |
4 | Greg Sessa | M | USA | Wills Wing U2 160 | 758 | 47 | 1000 | 1805 |
5 | Jose Sandoval | M | GUA | Aeros Discus C | 609 | 837 | 315 | 1761 |
3 topics in this article: competition, Niki Longshore, US Nationals 2016
2016 Big Spring Nationals
August 12, 2016, 8:26:14 CST -0500
2016 Big Spring Nationals
Results from the third task
Bruce Barmakian|Davis Straub|George Longshore|Kevin Carter|Larry Bunner|Moyes Litespeed RX|Niki Longshore|US Nationals 2016
Cu's above the sport class goal:
Photo by George Longshore.
Task 3:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Kevin Carter | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 02:58:46 | 896 |
2 | Bruce Barmakian | Icaro Laminar | 03:19:25 | 830 |
3 | Larry Bunner | Wills Wing T2C144 | 03:26:30 | 739 |
4 | Derreck Turner | Moyes Litespeed RX5 | 03:39:05 | 694 |
5 | Cory Barnwell | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 04:21:53 | 496 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | T 1 | T 2 | T 3 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Derreck Turner | Moyes Litespeed RX5 | 940 | 1000 | 694 | 2634 |
2 | Bruce Barmakian | Icaro Laminar | 1000 | 770 | 830 | 2600 |
3 | Kevin Carter | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 741 | 736 | 896 | 2373 |
4 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 783 | 961 | 88 | 1832 |
5 | Larry Bunner | Wills Wing T2C144 | 301 | 664 | 739 | 1704 |
Sport class results have an error. Kevin's results may need a little work.
8 topics in this article: Bruce Barmakian, Davis Straub, George Longshore, Kevin Carter, Larry Bunner, Moyes Litespeed RX, Niki Longshore, US Nationals 2016
2016 Big Spring Nationals
August 11, 2016, 7:32:32 pm CST -0500
2016 Big Spring Nationals
Cory's convergence
Kevin Carter|US Nationals 2016
Kevin Carter <<xckevinc>> writes:
Cory was pretty far off course line but used this sweet convergence to get back up and charge to goal.
Cory writes:
Day 5 of the competition is in the bag. I had my second longest flight ever. 193 kilometers or 120 miles. I was last into goal (by the time I hour there everyone else was packed up and home). I did a bad job of navigating and ended up 20 kilometers off course and hemmed in by some bad terrain with no retrieve options. At that point I still had around 37 kilometers to go and I was only had about 2500 feet of altitude.
I knew I couldn't make it across the badlands (which were were warned about and which I promptly forgot about) so I turned around and headed back upwind to try to land next to a road. On the way back I hit a 300 fpm thermal at 1400 feet AGL so I started turning. I gradually gained altitude while the sky started looking really good above me.
Long story short, I was in a convergence zone and got all the way back to 10,500 feet msl (8000 feet above ground level). From that altitude I was able to glide 30 kilometers into goal!
2 topics in this article: Kevin Carter, US Nationals 2016
2016 Big Spring Nationals
August 11, 2016, 5:39:47 pm CST -0500
2016 Big Spring Nationals
Third task, a run to the northeast
US Nationals 2016|weather
https://airtribune.com/2016-big-spring-nationals/blog__day_5
The task committee wisely sent us to the northeast to avoid the trough and dry line coming from the west. Our goal was Guthrie, which you can see from above was all in the clear the whole way.
Unfortunately I went down early when I didn't stay with Larry in weak lift (that was actually down for me).
The day started with a few small cu's near the airport. With all the rain yesterday the lift was weak. I was second off and then Kevin, who launched before me come under me, but wandered off. Then I spotted Larry turning above to the northeast and a while later Derreck came under us but then went south.
Larry and I circled outside the start cylinder as the west southwest wind pushed us to the northeast. Climbing to 8,300' we came back to get the start time at 2 PM and headed toward the scattered cu's along the course line along highway 350.
Another pilot near us headed more easterly to our south but we lost track of him. The cu's were fat to our south east and sparse along the course line. We went for them and got there high enough but nothing was going up, We continued on toward some other wimpy looking cu's and down to 1000' AGL Larry found a little something just off to my left.
I joined him but apparently missed it and mistakenly carried on to land as he worked the weak stuff to get back up again.
Looks like a bunch of folks in goal. And the weather appears to be fine in that area as it blows up south of Big Spring and west of Lubbock.
2 topics in this article: US Nationals 2016, weather
2016 Big Spring Nationals
August 10, 2016, 4:18:52 pm CST -0500
2016 Big Spring Nationals
More rain on day four
Belinda Boulter|cart|Kevin Carter|US Nationals 2016
Kelly's photo of the taxi way.
Radar at 12:50 PM:
Radar at 1:24 PM:
Radar at 2:01 PM:
When I got out first to the launch area at 12:15 PM, taking my glider from the hangar on the north end down to south end, there was a cloud street over the runway from the south 20 miles to north 10 miles. A little cloud street to the west and otherwise all blue or overcast sky from the cirrus clouds.
When we looked at the radar fifteen minutes later after a brief sprinkle it showed the only development in Texas was right at Big Spring. By 1 PM there was a shower to our southeast and another one to our northeast. They stayed constant and didn't move for the next almost an hour as the cu's build above us and to the east. It was blue to the west.
At 1:30 PM there was plenty of rain to the north, northeast, and southeast. The task committee met, but two of the pilot wanted to wait and see what happened. I decided to put my glider in the hangar after putting all my gear in the car. I would wait there. Kevin Carter promised to look after my glider if I wanted to keep it out in the launch area, but I thought it was safer in the hangar.
As I took the glider north on a cart I felt the cool breeze of a gust front coming from the southwest. I hurried to the hangar and got it put away. Bruce was hiding his glider behind the hangar next to the launch area. Only Cory on the safety committee was left behind to help out Belinda with the task of canceling the day.
I made my way quickly back down to the launch area and all was chaos. Terry Wolford had been hit by a side wire helping out pilots whose gliders were being tossed about. The EMT's had bandaged his head.
Kevin was breaking down his tied down glider and it was starting to rain big rain drops. I got his harness in Jay's truck and drove him back to the hangar with his glider folded up and tied down in the launch area. A few other pilots were just getting their gliders broken down in the rain.
Belinda had cancelled the day and felt that the safety committee hadn't been able to help her (except for Cory) as we were trying to save ourselves.
4 topics in this article: Belinda Boulter, cart, Kevin Carter, US Nationals 2016
2016 Big Spring Nationals
August 10, 2016, 8:32:57 CST -0500
2016 Big Spring Nationals
The widely scattered rains came
Gary Osoba|US Nationals 2016
Gary Osoba's Stemme and the Flight for Life helicopter at the Big Spring Airport yesterday:
Wednesday and Thursday look very good.
2 topics in this article: Gary Osoba, US Nationals 2016
2016 Big Spring Nationals
August 9, 2016, 7:18:35 pm CST -0500
2016 Big Spring Nationals
Results
Bruce Barmakian|competition|Davis Straub|Facebook|Kevin Carter|Larry Bunner|Moyes Litespeed RX|US Nationals 2016
https://airtribune.com/2016-big-spring-nationals/results
Task 2:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Derreck Turner | Moyes Litespeed RX5 | 02:05:25 | 1000 |
2 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 02:05:53 | 961 |
3 | Bruce Barmakian | Icaro Laminar | 02:13:25 | 770 |
4 | Kevin Carter | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 02:27:09 | 736 |
5 | Larry Bunner | Wills Wing T2C144 | 02:30:41 | 664 |
Cumulative:
# | Name | Glider | T 1 | T 2 | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Derreck Turner | Moyes Litespeed RX5 | 940 | 1000 | 1940 |
2 | Bruce Barmakian | Icaro Laminar | 1000 | 770 | 1770 |
3 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 783 | 961 | 1744 |
4 | Kevin Carter | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 741 | 736 | 1477 |
5 | Cory Barnwell | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 877 | 202 | 1079 |
The prairie dogs are everywhere here. They said I can take as many of them home as I want.
8 topics in this article: Bruce Barmakian, competition, Davis Straub, Facebook, Kevin Carter, Larry Bunner, Moyes Litespeed RX, US Nationals 2016
2016 Big Spring Nationals
August 9, 2016, 7:12:13 pm CST -0500
2016 Big Spring Nationals
Day 3, cancelled
Belinda Boulter|Gary Osoba|US Nationals 2016
The first time ever that we've cancelled a task just based on the radar images.
This was the task that was called:
There was a sky full of left over clouds just after dawn. Later in the morning these gave way to cirrus clouds that suppressed the lift. As we approached 1 PM cu's began to form under the cirrus clouds and we had the best looking cu's over the air field relative to the previous two days.
With good looking cu's Anna took off early but didn't stick.
I launched third after Bruce. He had pinned off early and was coming back to launch again. Gregg pulled me almost due south and I pinned off in light lift. There were plenty of cu's around me and I went under them to find 600 fpm to 9,000'.
There were soon five pilots in the air and getting high under the well formed cu's. Then Belinda came on the radio. Cory and I and Bruce are the safety committee and Belinda asked Cory and I how it looked to us. She was talking to Bruce who was first in line to launch. Gary Osoba were looking at the radar in their phones and it looked like there was a storm to the north northeast and to our west and approaching us.
It looked good to us, as we could not see the tops of the cu's. We said that we were doing fine and it was not up to us to cancel the day. Belinda took our input and the radar images and canceled the task.
Later there was rain, at least at our hotel on the north end of Big Spring.
3 topics in this article: Belinda Boulter, Gary Osoba, US Nationals 2016
2016 Big Spring Nationals
August 9, 2016, 0:11:32 CST -0500
2016 Big Spring Nationals
Task 2, the open class task
PG|US Nationals 2016
With strong south winds and a forecast for over development up by Lubbock, the task committee set up a 118 kilometer zig zaging task that really put our cross wind flying skills to the test.
Cory Barnwell and I launched first and second and we climbed out together at over 400 fpm to 8,500'. Forty minutes before the start window opened we headed east to get better positioned and to get under nice looking clouds. We got under the cu's and stayed high but below cloud base going from cloud to cloud as they drifted to the north with the 16 mph south wind.
We got ourselves perfectly set up for the start upwind of the course line and high topping out at about 9.800' just before the start window opened and just on the edge of the start cylinder. Off we went, but wait who is this with us, it's Derreck Turner. The last time we saw him he was way below us and we thought that we had our start region all to ourselves. As a heavy guy Derreck glides well and he was soon ahead of us and higher.
We found 300+ fpm on the way to the first turnpoint which looked to be a bit in the blue. Grabbing it we lost track of Derreck and headed back northwest to some cu's which don't produce anything. Cory pushed out ahead and landed. I spotted a very small cu to the west that was just forming and headed toward it. Sure enough it built rapidly and I climbed at over 400 fpm to over 9,000'.
No one else was around since we lost Derreck. I headed west southwest to get upwind of the course line and passed under some non working cu's. It was pretty blue out to my west by the next turnpoint. I watched some dust coming off a pump station pad and noticed some tiny cu's forming in that vicinity. I pushed upwind to get to them and was richly rewarded with 640 fpm to 9.800'.
That gave me enough altitude to get through the blue to the turnpoint at Ackerly where I found 400+ fpm and Derreck as I climbed up to him to 8,800'. The sky was blue toward La Mesa, but 13 km to the north northeast along our course line the sky was full of cu's. I headed that direction as Derreck took a bit more upwind line.
I found 600 fpm to 9,900' half way to the congested cu's under a small cu and then raced to the 10 km cylinder turnpoint at Gail.
The lift was there but relatively weak under the well formed cu's compared to the wisps that I had been flying. Making the turnpoint at 7,700' I headed back west to get under a huge very dark cloud that looked like it was boiling. It took a while to find the best lift, but I finally got in 450 fpm to 10,500'. I couldn't see Derreck.
At 23 km from goal I had a required L/D of 9.23:1 and I was 3,500' over the best glide line. I pulled the bar in to about 43-45 mph and went on final glide.
There were a few scattered cu's ahead so I figured if I ran into a problem I could stop in something. Turned out that there was plenty of sink along my course line and about a kilometer out I was down to 500'. I was going to make it but barely. Then at the last minute I found a small piece of lift and it was easy to get to the goal at the north end of the La Mesa runway.
Derreck was nearby and likely came in a little before me at 2,000' higher having taken a better final glide line in.
Results are up, but they are wrong. I'll fix in the morning around 10 AM.
http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/para/flightinfo.html?flightId=1836890516
http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/para/getScoring.html?scoringId=319
http://www.paraglidingforum.com/leonardo/flight/1474092
http://wxc.fai.org/module.php?id=22&l=en&date=20160324&contest=INT&gliderclass=hg1
http://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:davisstraub/8.8.2016/18:03
http://www.xcontest.org/world/en/ranking-hg-open/
2 topics in this article: PG, US Nationals 2016
2016 Big Spring Nationals
August 8, 2016, 11:00:57 pm CST -0500
2016 Big Spring Nationals
Task 1, results fixed
Bruce Barmakian|competition|Davis Straub|Kevin Carter|Moyes Litespeed RX|Niki Longshore|US Nationals 2016
https://airtribune.com/2016-big-spring-nationals/results
Task 1:
# | Name | Glider | Time | Total |
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Bruce Barmakian | Icaro Laminar | 02:32:14 | 1000 |
2 | Derreck Turner | Moyes Litespeed RX5 | 02:32:58 | 940 |
3 | Cory Barnwell | Moyes Litespeed RX 3.5 | 02:37:34 | 877 |
4 | Davis Straub | Wills Wing T2C 144 | 02:49:27 | 783 |
5 | Kevin Carter | Wills Wing T2C 154 | 02:43:57 | 741 |
Sport task 1:
# | Name | Nat | Glider | Time | Total | |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Carlos Alvarado | M | GUA | Wills Wing U2 160 | 01:19:30 | 979 |
2 | Erik Grabowski | M | USA | Wills Wing U2 145 | 01:23:14 | 892 |
3 | Niki Longshore | F | USA | Moyes Gecko | 01:28:57 | 817 |
4 | Kelly Myrkle | M | USA | Wills Wing U2C | 01:30:21 | 802 |
5 | Greg Sessa | M | USA | Wills Wing U2 160 | 01:34:36 | 758 |
7 topics in this article: Bruce Barmakian, competition, Davis Straub, Kevin Carter, Moyes Litespeed RX, Niki Longshore, US Nationals 2016
2016 Big Spring Nationals
August 8, 2016, 9:13:18 pm CST -0500
2016 Big Spring Nationals
Task 2
Facebook|Niki Longshore|US Nationals 2016|weather
https://www.wunderground.com/weather-radar/united-states/tx/lubbock/lbb/?region=law
We didn't go near this and landed at goal before this happened.
Niki writes:
What a day! No goal but I still had fun on my Gecko. The sky really dried up towards goal and I managed to scratch along to tag the 3rd TP. I kept saying "you're gonna make goal you're gonna make goal you're gonna make goal!" But it just wasn't happening. I needed a big climb to get up to go on final glide but couldn't find one. I didn't give up until I knew it was the end. Anyways, fun day. New learning experience. And I love my Moyes Gecko.
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10153890991688403&set=pcb.10153890991708403&type=3&theater
Kelly Myrkle writes:
No goal today unfortunately. I had an in flight problem that cost a lot of altitude to fix. Managed to resolve the problem, drift a little more down course line, and land next to some shade.
4 topics in this article: Facebook, Niki Longshore, US Nationals 2016, weather
2016 Big Spring Nationals
August 8, 2016, 9:11:34 pm CST -0500
2016 Big Spring Nationals
Task 1
competition|US Nationals 2016|video
Too many issues with scoring to publish the results.
You can preliminary results here: https://airtribune.com/2016-big-spring-nationals/results
3 topics in this article: competition, US Nationals 2016, video
2016 Big Spring Nationals
August 7, 2016, 11:52:49 pm CST -0500
2016 Big Spring Nationals
Task 1, cross wind to Fish
Bruce Barmakian|Facebook|Gary Osoba|Kevin Carter|Larry Bunner|PG|Tom McGowan|US Nationals 2016|video
https://www.facebook.com/lbunner/videos/vb.608622342/10153653592392343/?type=2&theater
The winds are predominantly south here in Big Spring and we come to fly in August when the winds are supposed to be a bit lighter. We have often had triangle and out and return tasks here, but it looks like we will have moderate south winds (10 - 15 mph surface) for the next couple days at least.
The task committee ( Larry Bunner, Tom McGowan, and Derreck Turner) decided to send the sport class basically downwind 74 km on a dogleg to La Mesa. They sent those of us in open class on the secondary task 127 km east northeast to Winston airfield west of Snyder and then to the airfield Fish southeast of Rotan. So a cross wind task the whole way.
Gary Osoba is here flying his two place Stemme and checked out the region for us encouraging us to stay to the drier areas to the north east. More standing water up north of La Mesa and by Lubbock apparently as well as to the west and northwest.
With two trikes pulling the nineteen pilots (ten in open and nine in sport) we got everyone off in two hours. The wind was brisk out of the south but with a ten kilometer start cylinder it was not that difficult to stay within the radius waiting for the start time, an hour after the first launch at 2:00 PM. A second start at 2:20 PM for our race task. The sport class had an elapsed time task that starts their task when they individually cross the circumference of the start cylinder.
I was third off after Derreck and Larry with Bruce Barmakian just behind me. Trike tows can be pretty lively and mine was no exception. I pinned off early at 1,500' in light lift and climbed out at 115 fpm on average. Bruce was pulled over to me and we climbed together for the next forty five minutes to just below cloud base at 9,000'. Larry joined us just before the start window opened.
We had pushed our way further to the east and to the south east to get in a better position in the start cylinder for the course line that went to the east northeast. Still with the 16 mph south wind we were 5 km north of the course line at the start. I headed out and took a line heading easterly while Larry and Bruce went further to the north of me a bit more downwind of the course line toward the clouds that they thought looked better. I didn't see them again until much later in the task.
I was in radio contact with Cory Barnwell who was upwind of the course line and we kept each other updated on our progress, which was about the same. The sky was full of cu's and it was a game of connect the dots down highway 350 to Snyder. I worked my way a little more upwind each chance I got to go to a particular cloud.
After climbs of 500 to 600 fpm to almost 10,000' I headed east for the town of Ira south of Snyder which had a nice looking cu over it. I lost significant altitude gliding toward it and found nothing organized as I approached it. I decided to turn south for a more solid looking cu.
This worked but only at 250 fpm and I had to give up on it after getting up a bit and being able to drift to the north to the original cu. Still only 250 fpm, so I had to go again looking for better cu's and better lift and finally found 460 fpm and got back in the game after wasting some time. Cory found it first and was now ahead of me.
Tagging the airfield I headed east to stay upwind of the course line and found strong lift, 400 - 600 fpm but the south wind pushed me downwind of the course line every time I thermalled up. That required going a bit upwind to get to goal.
Bruce won the day, with Derreck second, Cory third, I was fourth, Larry in next and then Kevin Carter, Tom McGowan, and David Whittle. Anna was a little short.
The scores will be up in the morning as I am teaching Kelly Myrkle how to score.
The air was quite pleasant. The thermal were well formed despite the wind. Their strength was good and in some cases pilots found over 1000 fpm. We did see over development way to our north after the task. There were outstanding cu's in the sky after 7 PM.
http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/para/flightinfo.html?flightId=1750982650
http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/para/getScoring.html?scoringId=319
http://www.paraglidingforum.com/leonardo/flight/1472875
http://wxc.fai.org/module.php?id=22&l=en&date=20160324&contest=INT&gliderclass=hg1
http://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:davisstraub/7.8.2016/18:39
http://www.xcontest.org/world/en/ranking-hg-open/
9 topics in this article: Bruce Barmakian, Facebook, Gary Osoba, Kevin Carter, Larry Bunner, PG, Tom McGowan, US Nationals 2016, video
2016 Big Spring Nationals
August 7, 2016, 8:58:23 pm CST -0500
2016 Big Spring Nationals
Sunday, first task
Facebook|US Nationals 2016|video
https://www.facebook.com/cory.barnwell/videos/10100771628841938/
3 topics in this article: Facebook, US Nationals 2016, video
2016 Big Spring Nationals
August 7, 2016, 8:19:06 CST -0500
2016 Big Spring Nationals
Practice Day
US Nationals 2016|video
2 topics in this article: US Nationals 2016, video
2016 Big Spring Nationals
August 3, 2016, 8:02:22 MST -0600
2016 Big Spring Nationals
Follow us with Live Tracking
US Nationals 2016
https://airtribune.com/2016-big-spring-nationals/blog
Starts on Sunday.
1 topic in this article: US Nationals 2016
Getting ready for the ⁢2016 Big Spring Nationals
Gregg Ludwig
Getting ready for the ⁢2016 Big Spring Nationals
cart|Gregg "Kim" Ludwig|US Nationals 2016
He writes about his preparations for towing with his trike
Preparations here include:
- The truck has new wheels, tires and brakes
- the trike trailer has new wheel bearings
- the Wallaby style launch cart gets a taller tail support
- the trike has a current annual and 100hr inspection sign off
- the trike has new tires, bearings, new style tow hook and other upgrades. Runs great and starts easily
- towlines, spare trike tire mounted on wheel, fuel tanks and toolbox ready to pack.
https://airtribune.com/2016-big-spring-nationals/blog
3 topics in this article: cart, Gregg "Kim" Ludwig, US Nationals 2016
2016 Big Spring Nationals
June 3, 2016, 10:21:33 CST -0500
2016 Big Spring Nationals
Kevin Carter coming to Big Spring and to the Santa Cruz Flats
Bruce Barmakian|Derrick Turner|Glen Volk|Kevin Carter|Larry Bunner|US Nationals 2016
It has been a while, but it is great to see cyclocross racing. Kevin is coming to fly in the Big Spring Nationals and the Santa Cruz Flats Race. He is not alone. Derrick Turner is coming to Big Spring also. They are not alone with Glen Volk, Larry Bunner Bruce Barmakian, and other top pilots showing up.
We've now got twenty confirmed pilots ready to compete at Big Spring, so the competition will go forward. Thirty one pilots have registered. The entry fee rises in a few hours at noon Mountain time.
6 topics in this article: Bruce Barmakian, Derrick Turner, Glen Volk, Kevin Carter, Larry Bunner, US Nationals 2016
2016 Big Spring Nationals
June 1, 2016, 7:44:03 EST -0400
2016 Big Spring Nationals
Friday is the day the entry free rises
US Nationals 2016
Wow, a bunch of new entries this week and it's great to see this interest in the Big Spring Nationals. We love flying in Texas and are looking forward to seeing you all in Big Spring.
Please don't get caught having to pay more for the competition. At noon Mountain Daylight Time on Friday, June 3rd, the entry fee rises to $400.
http://ozreport.com/2016BigSpringNationals.php
https://airtribune.com/2016-big-spring-nationals/pilots
Pilots make the competition a joyous occasion. We just provide the venue and the opportunity to fly together with your friends.
We love flying in Big Spring because the cu's always show up around 1 PM, they are big fat thermals, and you can land any where without hitting anything, Lots of retrieval routes. Goals at air fields with wind socks. Free ice cream. Air conditioned pilot lounge.
Make sure that you get confirmed early (registered, entry fees paid, waivers and medical forms filled out) so that we can have the resources needed to make it great.
Twelve pilots in sport class so far.
1 topic in this article: US Nationals 2016
2016 Big Spring Nationals
May 25, 2016, 8:08:16 EST -0400
2016 Big Spring Nationals
It's time to confirm your attendance
Quest Air|US Nationals 2016
If you are coming to the 2016 Big Spring Nationals now is the time to register (if you haven’t already), fill out your waivers, and make the $350 entry fee payment.
The 2016 Big Spring entry fee increases to $400 on June 3rd at noon MDT. We need your registration, entry fee and waivers by then if you want to keep the price low as possible.
http://ozreport.com/2016BigSpringNationals.php
Pilot list: https://airtribune.com/2016-big-spring-nationals/pilots
Currently only five pilots are confirmed (paid and documents signed and sent in). We have 21 registered. We need at least 20 pilots confirmed by June 30th or we will not be able to have the resources needed to run the competition (tugs, basically). We are currently looking at local to Texas tug operators as we need 40 pilots to attend the meet to bring Russell from Quest Air out with his tugs.
Payments are fully refundable if we receive a request by email by noon Mountain Daylight Time, July 18th. Refunds will be provided after that date if the competition isn’t fully subscribed.
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2016 Big Spring Nationals
Fees increase the 3rd of June
US Nationals 2016
https://OzReport.com/2016BigSpringNationals.php
Come fly the site of the 2007 Worlds. Big, smooth air with wide open spaces and plenty of cu's.
1 topic in this article: US Nationals 2016
2016 Big Spring Nationals
2016 Big Spring Nationals
Web sites are up
CIVL|USHPA|US Nationals 2016
We have applied for sanctioning with the USHPA, which will apply to CIVL for Category 2 sanctioning in October.
http://ozreport.com/2016BigSpringNationals.php
https://airtribune.com/2016-big-spring-nationals/blog
Registration will open right after the USHPA BOD meeting in October.
3 topics in this article: CIVL, USHPA, US Nationals 2016
2016 Big Spring Nationals
2016 Big Spring Nationals
Dates of the 15th Annual Big Spring Nationals
calendar|CIVL|Facebook|US Nationals 2016
Saturday, August 6th, Practice Day
Sunday August 7th through 13th.
http://ozreport.com/calendar.php
(Europeans - August 6th through 20th)
http://www.fai.org/civl-events/civl-events-calendar-and-results
Pre-Worlds in Brazil (August 27th through September 3rd)
They want us back:
August 6th is a practice day.
4 topics in this article: calendar, CIVL, Facebook, US Nationals 2016