Welcome to The Governor's Cup 2008

The 2008 Guv Cup season is open!

This years teams include:

The Slovenly Horde - Philadelphia Glider Council
The Pudknockers - Aero Club Albatross
The Brandywine Snifters - Brandywine Soaring Assn
The Middletown Marauders - Valley Soaring Club
The Beltzville Barbarians - Beltzville Soaring Club

Please register and add your sailplane make and model - you can do this when you upload your first flight.

Your Competition ID at registration is the primary key used to identify you and link you to a club and sailplane.

Create two Competition IDs if you belong to two clubs and will be uploading flights for both. For Example, QV could be QV-PGC and QV-BSA.

Create a unique team ID when you submit a two place TEAM FLIGHT ... PGC1, PGC2, Bob-Bill are possible example formats. Team submissions assume you will be flying the same type of aircraft on each flight.

Richard Kellerman (QV) will be generating weather forecasts for the weekend - we're still setting this up.

The XJ blipmaps are up...covers GCup south task area and all the way out to Mifflin.

http://www.pgcsoaring.org/blipmaps/HILLTOWN/

These are fine grid (4km) forecasts run using the WRF model with NAM initialization data. Forecasts are shown for (3) times daily starting ~8am and are updated with newer NAM data ~11am. The model is running on a Linux box in my office so bear with me throughout the season on service interruptions.

I've been watching these for a bit and the forecast accuracy looks encouraging. Please give me feedback based on pireps during the season or just grab me to talk about the weather in general. XJ

Thanks again to Dave and John for doing all the work needed to setup the data collection and scoring systems.

Ken Kochanski - KK (3/1/2008)

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Link to prior flights/scores at Erik Mann's Guv Cup Site