A number of folks have asked how we get in the air with no mountains in FL. We getted towed by ultrallights and launch off carts as pictured here. Very civilized!

Days 5 and 6

The weather has turned overcast with no lift. Both days called. Hope it breaks.

You can track the competition results at http://flytec.com/Events/2006/2_5_w_worlds/scores.htm

I am competing in the rigid category

Task 4

Another triangle to get us back to where we started. It is really nice to be able to land back at the flight, keep your equipment together, have a beer, a shower and sit down for dinner!

Same theme as the last two days; poor start (the gaggles were staggering today with 40+ gliders in a single thermal seperated by less than 200 feet vertically and 100 feet horizontally). i was glad that there were no mid-air collisions.

I caught a number of folks on the last two legs but still placed 28th for the day. Altitudes of over 8,000 were had today!

Fun times, long days with high temperatures and humidity.

Task 4 on 5-21. Distance is 80 miles

Task three

We run around the green swamp today. This is always a fun flight and to go fast you must be willing to fly deep into and over the swamp. the first started well for me but I stumbled at the first turn point and almost landed. After recovering I chased the pack but again was very slow, reoccuring theme! Again I made it around but placed around 30th for the day

Task 3 - run around the green swamp ~98 mile flight

Day two

I had a poor start, got low a couple of times and flew slowly. Placed around 25th but I made goal. Fun flight and long drive home. There is a whole lot of nothing in the part of this state!

Flight from 5-19 a crosswind flight of 127 miles.

2006 Hang Gliding World Championships

We are in Groveland FL for the words. The first day, Thursday May 18th was windy so we did a cross wind and down wind course to a great horse and RV ranch for a length of ~67 miles. I flew OK and placed 9th. Here is a copy of the flight log, the red line starting in the left hand corner. The times stated are UTC, subtract 4 for the EDT.

Good start to the competiton.

Flight from 5-19 first day of the worlds. 67 miles down and cross wind