The highest that I've verified was around 1850 m if I remember correctly, a
couple of years ago with a Picolario. I used to put my Casio altimeter watch
in my XC, and it had a max altitude, along with max rate of climb and summation
of altitude gained.The highest I recorded with the watch
I'm not sure what the story is. I've gotten emails from a few that read the
post, and a few that say the email is empty. I suspect that I sent out a post
that might have been too long.
The post does appear on the Yahoo groups list:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/soaring/message/143768
Joe
PS
It has been almost a week since I returned from Slovakia, but this is the first
time that I've had some free time to put some comments together. First of all,
congratulations to Cody Remington the new Junior World Champion, David Hobby
the first repeat Senior Champion, The German Senior
It is now the morning of the flyoffs. We get started at 10 AM, and will fly
four rounds of seniors and juniors. All three juniors are in the flyoffs, and
the jr team took GOLD!!! Go Jrs!!!
The senior team had some bad luck during the contest, with some freaky
equipment failures. Tom K.
We are finished with the contest, finally. The US team finished in third
place. The Germans finished first, and the Swedes finished second for team.
Individually, I ended up in seventh place, Mike Smith was in eighth, and Gordon
ended up in 23rd. Gordon had some bad luck in both distance
Groundhog day #5...
The US team is currently in 3rd place overall, but with a very precarious lead
over the fourth place swiss. There was a lot of rain this morning, so we
didn't get started until about 2PM today.
Yesterday was a bad news/good news kind of a day. Duration was very
It is now groundhog day #4...
We do have wi-fi access at the field here, and I have a laptop, so I can do
some emails occasionally. It is now Thursday morning, just before the start of
duration for round #5.
The US team has had some challenges this year. Round four yesterday was
especially
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