In the 1980's The PASCO Board approved of a "trophy" that was devised to encourage cross-country glider flights. After being deposited to a glider field, pilots at that site were expected to fly it to another glider site. It was considered shameful if pilots were unable to fly it to a new location. As might have been expected the "Trophy" - an old duck's head, became "lost" after a few years, as pilots tired of 'the game'. In the early 1990's PASCO devised a new trophy to encourage glider cross country flights and called it a Capture Trophy. A hand carved walnut egg now serves as The Trophy, and is simply been referred to as "The Egg". Information technology has evolved since "The Egg" was placed into circulation, and attempts to track the trophy via electronic means have proven to be only marginally effective. Supposedly, the Paper Log Book accompanying "The Egg" is being maintained by each pilot who captures the trophy. The electronic version of the log book has been edited many times and has chronicled the history of The Egg since August 1991. The Egg log is an MS Excel file, with the name of egg-log.xls. Download here: http://www.valleysoaring.net/egg/egg-log.xls The posting to that xls log was suspended as of September
2009. I will continue to post any reports or emails that I see onto a web page operated by the VSA . See it at: http://www.valleysoaring.net/egg/egg-reports.htm
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