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John Good’s report – Final Day JWGC http://ussoaringteams.org/john-good-12-august/
The carved pole commemorating the championships. A great Lithuanian tradition!
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10th FAI Jr World Gliding Championship
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Team Updates from Daniel Sazhin
JWGC Final few days and wrap up from Daniel Greetings from Kaunas! The contest is now over and the team...
John Good – 12 August
The final day of JWGC2017 brought strange weather. Somewhat against probability, most pilots managed to complete a short task, which provided a much better ending to our competition than...
Noah Reitter – JWGC Updates and Pix
8/12 Final Competition day and a long wait for the launch Noah - Team USA...
Tony Condon’s posts from the Pociunai JWGC
The Final Competition Day-a long wait on the grid, so a Cricket Match! Labas Rytas! Today is the final day of the competition....
John Good – 11 August
The pessimists carried the day today. We awoke to thick fog covering the airfield, which persisted through mid-morning. After a brief dose of sun, mid- and...
JP Stewart – posts and pictures
8/11 After trying to get a Contest Day We may not have had a contest day today but we had a pretty cool time!...
John Good – 10 August
Pociunai enjoyed a sunny, cloud-free morning. But an area of cloud and rain marching northeast from Poland gave poor prospects for a flying day. Yesterday’s mass-landout...
John Good – 9 August
Our stretch of untroubled weather has come to an end: glider trailers again piled up impressive mileage in Lithuania. Weather issues today included strong southeasterly winds and...
John Good – 8 August
For about the first time during JWGC2017, we awoke to perfectly clear skies, with no areas of cloud or troubled weather within hundreds of km of Pociunai. Indeed, the...
John Good – 7 August
An encouraging weather forecast today, leaving little doubt that some good motorless flying would be possible in Lithuania. This was a welcome change from morning uncertainty....
John Good – 6 August
Light rain and thick cloud this morning postponed briefing and grid time, and created much doubt that any task would be possible. But small patches of sun were in...
John Good – 5 August
Another decent soaring day in Pociunai – our second in a row. Unfortunately, it had some traps, and one of these caught our three US Team pilots....
John Good – 4 August
Now that’s more like it: a genuine flying day – the first since Sunday - with launches, cumulus clouds, racing and scores. To be sure, it was a 100%...
John Good – 3 August
Another long “grid-squat” today, this time not interrupted by any dangerous weather. We had cooler morning temperatures and a dryer airmass, which felt encouraging. But southwest winds brought...
John Good – 2 August
No long grid-squatting session was needed today. We mustered 70 gliders at 11:30 in time for a scheduled noon launch, which (as expected) was soon postponed to 12:30....
John Good – 1 August
A complex and difficult weather pattern in southern Lithuania today. A front lying east of us was marching north, creeping east, and threatening to overrun Pociunai with troublesome wind followed...
John Good – 31 July
The overnight weather forecast for western Lithuania was dire – it spoke of heavy rain, possible damaging winds and even dangerous hail. Most gliders here are left assembled with...
#JWGC “Team Members” Pilots and Support
In addition to our three pilots, JP Stewart, Noah Reitter, and Daniel Sahzin, Team USA is fortunate to have a stellar support staff. ...
John Good – 30 July
For the first official competition day of JWGC2017, “pretty good” won out over “rain by noon”. The weather forecast at the morning pilot briefing spoke of weak-ish lift to...
John Good report from JWGC 7/29
Greetings. Your US Team is on duty at the 10th FAI Junior World Gliding Championship, being held at Pociunai (about 20 miles south of the large city of Kaunas)...
Interviews with the US Jr Soaring Gliding Champs!
The US JR Gliding Championship is just about to start. Let's get to know the young men who are representing the US! These interviews with Danial Sazhin,...
2017 Junior Camp and Contest has ended
The 2017 Junior Camp and Contest has ended. It was run simultaneously with the Region 3 competition in Elmira. The Junior event...
US Team Camp News – May 30
This week in Cordele, Ga., the 3 members of our Junior International Team are honing their skills with other current, previous and hopeful US Soaring Team members....
Daniel Sazhin
Daniel Sazhin has been flying gliders since 2008 and loves racing and record flying. After being encouraged and mentored by his club, he actively flew Aero Club...
JP Stewart
JP Stewart has been hooked on aviation for nearly 10 years. Beginning with radio control aircraft he flew competitive giant-scale aerobatics before moving into full-scale flying. He...
Noah Reitter
Noah Reitter took a demonstration ride in the fall of 2012 at Harris Hill. Next spring, he joined Harris Hill’s junior organization, soloed later that summer and...
Fernando Silva
Team Captain for both the contest in Lithuania for the 34th WGC, and the 10th FAI Jr WGC in Pochiunai, Lithuania. Fernando Silva transitioned to gliders in 1978 and...
