UK Mountain Soaring Championship 2021

Aboyne, United Kingdom,   September 5, 2021 – September 11, 2021

Champions

Open
1 XX Adrian Docherty 478
2 ZA Tony Brown 470
3 115 Robert Tait 411

Time Lapse Videos

We have been taking time lapse videos of the clouds all week and uploading them to YouTube Day 3 Time Lapse Day 2 Time Lapse (afternoon) Day 2 Time Lapse (morning) Day 1 Time Lapse
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Written on September 8, 2021 at 9:10 AM.

Height Gain Update

Yesterday was another classic UKMSC day, we scrubbed the Cross Country task and a few usual suspects pushed onto the runway and took a launch, encouraging a few others to follow. We also had the typically rush around 17:50 to take a launch before 18:00. Both X1 and DTG climbed above 10,000 feet
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Written on September 8, 2021 at 8:58 AM.

Rebrief at 11:00

Not much else to say, rebrief at 11:00 Keep your fingers crossed for the weather.
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Written by: Deeside Gliding Club on September 8, 2021 at 8:53 AM.

Briefing @ 09:30 - dont forget to wear suncream

That bright round orange thing is in the sky again this morning, lets see what the weather and task setter have to say at the 09:30 briefing. Yesterday X1 and DTG climbed above 10,000 feet, more on the height gain later. 
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Written by: Deeside Gliding Club on September 8, 2021 at 7:41 AM.

The XC is scrubbed. Height Climb only

The thermals have not set up. Cross country is scrubbed, the height gain is available, last launch 18:00. 
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Written by: Deeside Gliding Club on September 7, 2021 at 1:24 PM.

and the sniffer is back down

Blue wave is about and a few thermals but not currently enough to launch everyone into.  A little more waiting required. 
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Written on September 7, 2021 at 11:55 AM.

The sniffer is up

We have launched the sniffer and she has contacted wave, first launch will be in 10 minutes.
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Written by: Deeside Gliding Club on September 7, 2021 at 11:31 AM.

Follow todays action

You can follow the action from today on Glide and Seek
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Written by: Deeside Gliding Club on September 7, 2021 at 10:14 AM.

Height Gain Update

Martin Phillimore managed the greatest gain (6,949') and heighest height (10,492') yesterday. The day results and overall results are below
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Written on September 7, 2021 at 10:11 AM.

Briefing is over, we have a task

Following a great day yesterday, we have awoke to another lovely sunny day. We have set another task this morning, first launch not before 11:00
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Written by: Deeside Gliding Club on September 7, 2021 at 8:44 AM.

Latest winner

1. Adrian Docherty 81.57 km/h
2. Tony Brown 77.77 km/h
3. Robert Tait 68.66 km/h
Updated: 9/10/21, 4:19 PM

Latest task

Task 1, Sep 6, 2021
Task distance: 54.97 km  /  212.96 km  (130.62 km)
Task duration: 1:30:00
Updated: 9/6/21, 8:30 PM

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