Canadian National Soaring Team at World Championship

The Canadian National Soaring Team is currently competing at the 34th World Gliding Championships in Benalla, Australia, running until January 20th, 2017.  All four pilots on the team this year are SOSA members and flight instructors.

The competition time zone is 16 hours ahead of SOSA time, most race days will start at about 10pm Eastern, with results available to us in the mornings.




Real Time Flight Streaming
Since we couldn't all travel to Australia to cheer them on in person, here's how to follow the contest online:
 - Live tracking of race flights: http://wgc2017.com/live!/tracking.aspx?contestID=25893
 - Airfield live radio: http://www.wgc2017.com/live!/audio.aspx?contestID=25960
 - Landouts map: http://www.wgc2017.com/live!/lowcrop-outlandings.aspx?contestID=27615
 - Curated list of people and teams tweeting: https://twitter.com/SOSAglidingclub/lists/wgc2017

News and Pictures 
Canadian Team Blog, usually updated daily: http://teamcanadawgc.blogspot.com
Canadian Photo Galleries: http://cnst.ggc.aero/dir/  (Choose from the photo galleries on the left side of the page)
Blog posts from the contest organizers: http://www.wgc2017.com/blog/blog-list/sean-young.aspx
Canadian Team Facebook updates: https://www.facebook.com/CanadianSoaringTeam/
Contest videos from the organizers: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCegIcXFf_Ie-tBKM9qyhXuA/videos
Contest facebook: https://www.facebook.com/WGCBenalla
List of competition teams that are updating by Twitter: https://twitter.com/FAI_IGC/lists/wgc-2017-benalla

Competition tasks and results
Race Tasks: http://www.wgc2017.com/current-task_container/current-task.aspx?contestID=25941
Daily weather information and task briefing materials: http://www.wgc2017.com/blog/blog-list/weather-info-and-briefing-files.aspx
Scoring Results: http://www.wgc2017.com/results(hidden)/daily-race-results.aspx?contestID=25780
Official Championships website with results, etc: http://wgc2017.com

Canadian Team
Canadian Soaring Team website with Canadian pilot bios and sponsors listed: http://sailplaneracing.com/team
Soaring Association of Canada team site: http://www.sac.ca/team/

Support the Canadian team
Donate to support the team: https://www.gofundme.com/canadian_team
Donate Air Miles to support the team: http://beyondmiles.aeroplan.com/eng/charity/550

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