Nice X/C flights on Saturday

While I was giving my two rides, two friends in the Bay Area Soaring Associates club flew the DG-505 down to Center Peak about 65 miles south in the Diablo Range and back for a nice 2hr45min flight covering 140 miles at an average speed of 50mph.  They were accompanied by two privately owned single-place sailplanes.
Here is how their flights are recorded on the OLC(On Line Contest) site:

 http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/gliding/index.html?c=C0&sc=&st=olc&rt=olc

This site is operated by a club in Germany for the world's soaring community

the standard view w/stats

Here is the flight of one of the solo gliders that was an hour longer and covered more distance for a faster average speed.  There are races all over the world that very few people know about except those in our small soaring community!

At the end of a good soaring day the ramp activity will look like this pic from last spring:

Pilots are debriefing each other, securing the gliders on the ramp or disassembling and stowing them in the trailers.