UK Mountain Soaring Championship 2024

Aboyne, United Kingdom,   September 1, 2024 – September 7, 2024

Champions

Open
1 3D Tanner & Wilson 800
2 Z61 Jordan Richards 750
3 253 John Williams 728

Day 4

The weather is did not get the memo about us trying to run a Gliding comp. We have cloud on the hills, a threat of rain and the cross country has been scrubbed. It might clear up later for Height Gains, last luanch will be 18:00.
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Written by: Deeside Gliding Club on September 4, 2024 at 9:36 AM.

Day 3 - Height Gain Results

 Height Gain Results from today   Glider Pilot             High   Low   GainZ61    Jordan Richards   10,645 2,681 7,964SO     Hans Georg Werner 10,014 3,279 6,735606    Pete Gray         7,441  2,569 4,8728Q     Graham Paul       7,428  2,608 4,820R1     Tony Mountain     7,164  2,534 4,6301UP    Pete Gill         7,978  3,418 4,560X6     Steve KR          8,120  3,819 4,301EVF    Stuart Naylor     6,567  2,489 4,078LM     Steve Thompson    7,777  3,991 3,786X1     Alastair Mutch    6,938  3,644...
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Written by: Deeside Gliding Club on September 3, 2024 at 9:16 PM.
Edited by: Deeside Gliding Club on September 3, 2024 at 9:22 PM.

Day 3 - FL195

The Cross Country has been scrubbed for the day, but the height gain competition is very much on with competiors passing through 8,000ft
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Written by: Deeside Gliding Club on September 3, 2024 at 2:44 PM.

Day 3 - Task

We have a 2:00 assigned area task - Loch Kinord - Keith - Heugh Head - Glen Dee Bridge - Aboyne 103.05 km / 274.87 km First launch not before 12:00 and follow the progress at Glide and Seek
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Written by: Deeside Gliding Club on September 3, 2024 at 9:09 AM.
Edited by: Deeside Gliding Club on September 3, 2024 at 9:09 AM.

Day 3

Clear blue sky this morning :) The printer is current making noises in control - maybe a task being set?Briefing is at 09:30
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Written by: Deeside Gliding Club on September 3, 2024 at 7:58 AM.

Day 2

The airfield is covered in mist with the cloud down to the mountain top so briefing this morning we held an auction of books, wine and an old ejection rocket bottle  with the proceeds going to LaunchPoint, supporting the development of glider pilots.   The cross country has been scrubbed for the day, however if things do clear up, last launch is 18:00 for the height gain competition.
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Written by: Deeside Gliding Club on September 2, 2024 at 9:29 AM.

Day 1 - Height Gain Results

XX (Adrian Docherty) has won the height gain. Low Point - 2,488 Height Point - 6,057 Total Gain  - 3,569ft Full Results ID   Pilot           High  Low   GainXX   Adrian Docherty 6,057 2,488 3,569Z61  Jordan Richards 5,837 2,681 3,156SC   Sant Cervantes  6,585 3,951 2,634DEW  Pete Whitehead  5,427 2,865 2,5623D   Tanner & Wilson 5,037 2,606 2,431DTG  Matt Roberts    4,343 2,204 2,139245  Stewart Reid    4,794 2,708 2,086X6   Steve KR        4,865 3,169 1,696YX   Al Greensmith   4,108 2,940 1,168
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Written by: Deeside Gliding Club on September 1, 2024 at 5:08 PM.
Edited by: Deeside Gliding Club on September 1, 2024 at 5:22 PM.

Waving

We have gliders passing through 5,000 feet, there is wave about...
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Written by: Deeside Gliding Club on September 1, 2024 at 3:13 PM.

Day 1 - XC Scrub - Height Gain Available

The Cross Country task has been scrubbed for today. Height Gain are still available, lets see if we have the usual evening queue for launches before 18:00.  You can keep track of progress at Glide and Seek
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Written by: Deeside Gliding Club on September 1, 2024 at 12:45 PM.

Fields Database

We are making the scottish_landables_extended.cup (16.127 kB) available for pilots use at their discretion. No guarantees any of these are landable and no responsibility taken by DGC or authors for their use. Some selected from aerial photos and maps, not visited Recent checks on fields in Tarfside show some are not landable. Track in Glen Muick is not landable. Where orientation is shown, field may be sloped and on
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Written by: Deeside Gliding Club on September 1, 2024 at 9:30 AM.

Latest winner

1. Tanner & Wilson 89.59 km/h
2. Jordan Richards 84.26 km/h
3. John Williams 81.97 km/h
Updated: 9/7/24, 6:46 PM

Latest task

Task 3, Sep 7, 2024
Task distance: 54.80 km  /  216.00 km  (130.46 km)
Task duration: 2:00:00
Updated: 9/7/24, 9:03 AM

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