Cambridge University Gliding Club

CUGC will be sending a team to this competition. It is suitable for pilots of all abilities (even pre-solo) as it consists of various parts such as progress, soaring and cross-country. It is very informal and the social side of it makes it amazing fun. Definitely the best place to meet like-minded young glider pilots.

The UKs top gliding pilots will be at Bicester to compete in this national competition. Expect to see some CUGC (and ex-CUGC) pilots there.

Hello all!
 
I suppose some of you might be wondering what on earth this Inter-University Gliding League thingy is. Well, this ought to clear things up for those people; http://www.interunisleague.co.uk/
 
The 'IUGL' is the main mode of competition between Universities. All badge claims (and parts of badge claims) get us points. Provided, that is, I am notified that you have got said badge so that I can submit the claims for you!
 
Firstly; A big thank you to all CUGC members who have not-worked hard (and flown hard instead ;) ), got claims and submitted points; CUGC is presently top of the ladder!
 
Secondly; Could all CUGC members please notify me (Adam Spikings) as and when you get claim forms signed off. Please do not delay too long - we lose 50% of points per two months late the submission goes in. Please, 1) support your Club 2) have lots of fun flying and 3) keep us ahead of the scum in third place!!!
 
Thirdly; The Inter-Uni Task Week takes place at Lasham between 19th and 27th July. It is a great opportunity to get some intensive training, go solo, get badges, and this year aerobatic training is also available. Of course, it is a lot of fun too! If you want to go and havn't already, please let myself or Martin Hughes (mch46) know.
 
That's it from me for now; see you all at the airfield!
 
Adam Spikings

"Rise above the rest" - RAF Advertising slogan, and the League's new motto.

About the League-Ladder

This year brings an exciting new competition to the world of CUGC: a Cuppers League! Flights are made in accordance with the Varsity rules, plus a few additions, given below.

Each college's scores are summed throughout the season, and the college with the highest total by the summer vacation wins! As does the pilot with the highest single score...

Results

Congratulations to Graham Bell (Jesus College) for pretty much destroying the competition.

The league is now closed. Last updated 04/08/2008 

Five Top Scoring Flights:

• 17/04/2008: Graham Bell - 142pts
• 23/05/2008: Martin Hughes - 83pts
  
• 22/04/2008: Martin Hughes - 62pts (incl. time penalty)
  
• 14/03/2008: Graham Bell - 45pts (time only)
  
• 27/02/2008: Graham Bell - 44pts (time only)

College Scores: 

1. Jesus College: 324pts
2. St. Catharine's College: 234pts
3. Wolfson College: 92pts
4. Trinity College: 26pts
5. Fitzwilliam College: 17pts
   
6. Trinity Hall: 13pts

Cautions:

• Peter Buchlovsky (29/05/2008) - For thermalling over the final turn. Kudos for optimism (after a mighty 15 minutes of flying), but not a great example to set to us peons ;-)
  

Rules

1. For the purposes of scoring the rules shall be as the Varsity match, more details here.
2. Flights may be made at any time during the 'season', which shall end at the summer vacation
3. Flights must be made from the winch
4. Flights must land at the starting airfield
5. Flights less than 10 minutes shall be unscored
6. Circuits and approaches shall be flown as normal

Breaches of the rules will be dealt with by disqualification of the affected flight, with the exception of rule #6, which may result in disqualification for the whole season (at the discretion of the adjudicator)

Scoring

Submit logger traces to mch46 for scoring. Someday, an automated system might appear here.

Yesterday was the first day of the Hus Bos interclubs with Adam as our Novice, me as the intermediate, and Colin Smithers and Phil in the ASH flying in the pundit class.

The forecast was/is your typical interscrub one but nevertheless we held out hope that the clag would burn off and we would get at least a short task late in the day. The classes were set 75k, 100k and 145k tasks initially but at about 3pm when the sun finally appeared and we all realised that we might actually fly, the Novice task was scrubbed and the other two classes' tasks dropped back to the class below. So I called a start just after 4pm and with thermals as strong as 1.5kts and clouds as high as 1800ft, I landed out not very far away at about 5.20. It seems everyone else in the intermediate landed out or gave up at about the same point as I did and no-one in the intermediates got past Y*.

The adventure wasn't over yet though - I struggled to find a way into my field for a trailer and by the time Gavin arrived to pick me up I had three options. Take a gate of it's hinges, cut through some barbed wire, or remove a wooden stake from the ground. All involved driving through at least one field before we got to the glider! Luckily the first one worked. We then realised that my car was going to be incapable of towing a full trailer up the hill in the field next to mine so we called the cavalry (Colin and his 4 wheel drive) who arrived just as my wheels had had all the spinning they could take. The cows in the field took a great interest in the whole affair and managed to leave great blobs of cow spit all over my car as I abandoned it to help with the trailer. Phil demonstrated some extraordinary cow herding abilities (photos to follow shortly!) and it wasn't too long before we were on our way back to Hus Bos.

We're hoping for at least one more task out of the next two days - will keep you posted! 

* Y is part of the scoring formula. It is a distance equal to 2/3 of the total task distance. Someone must get past this point in order for anyone to get any points at all.