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tues, weds, thurskim and I are planning on meeting at the lz at 1pm each of these days. Come one out if you are cool enough. Forums > Rides & Road Trips 11:00 sounds good.Let's see what the weather does tomorrow as well. I can go either day. A Nice SupriseWe are pretty much at the end of the summer flying season. That means north winds and less of a chance of getting some flying in. Yesterday it blew down at Crestline and was very hazy at Marshall. I didn't fly, drove for Kim instead and he only got a sledder. Today it was blowing in good and it was much more clear. I launched Crestline at 2pm sharp and climbed to 700 ft over launch right away. I made a couple of trips to Pine but found it really trashy. I got the sink fest at Pine again and had to come out over Regionals pretty low. I was able to work back up level with Marshall but was not having much fun with the turbulence. At about 50 minutes into the flight I found myself at about 1000 ft agl over the 750 thinking of calling it a day and landing. It was then that I found a nice smooth thermal that got eventually got me back up high enough to go to Crestline. I saw Kim high over the Billboard so I decided to go over there instead. About 5 seconds later I found another bubble, this one got me up to 7500 ft and I changed course for the turn out. Eventually got back up to 7000 ft over there but I decided not to go further east. Instead I went back over to Pine for the third time and got up to 7900 ft over there. I decided to try for the Cajon pass, but only got to a little past Sugarpine and I chickened out. There was a pretty strong east wind over there and I didn't want to get to low and have to work my way back upwind. 2 hour flight. The first hour it was really turbulent with small thermals. The second hour was filled with smooth, strong lift and smooth conditions in between. To bad there were only three of us out to enjoy it (Kim, Wisconsin Paul and myself.) Summer ends on Thursday...
-Dave It Looked Like a Good AfternoonMike and Steve got up nicely from the 750 just before 14:00; I sledded w/some close-in scratching at the bluffs. The wind had turned very westerly, so the bluffs weren't working that well. While Steve went up to fly the last glider we were breaking the others down in the LZ. A huge dust devil came up the stairs and past the candy cane. Helpless feeling watching it shake all those gliders that were bagged-on-basetubes. None fell over, but a loose tip bag disappeared. Sounds like more of the same through the weekend. I might come outI'm not Chris but I may be able to flex my work schedule to fly, Thursday. May I join the club? Thursday LZ at 11:00Chris Hall and I will be out with a driver and room for one (two if we cram the back seat). The RASP is looking better and better. Keep your fingers crossed. Here's my cell: (925) 570-7629 See ya tomorrow. cool coolToday Kim and I will be at the LZ at 1pm tomorrow it will be 11 am. Come one out -Dave I'll be there tooJust spoke w/ Chris. Had lunch earlier today at Southside's shop where we went over all the forecasts and it looks like a very good day and likely a good one to go over the back. I plan to be there by 11. Me too?Guys, If I bring my car out and there is a driver, maybe we all can fit in. Six people including the driver, if someone can nestle in the rear with the harnesses. Should I ditch work? Playing HookyI told one of the partners here that it's FLYday tomorrow. He understood. At our firm's quarterly meeting this morning a hundred or so saw a photo of me soaring over Crestline on the projector. I have been offically 'Outed'. If it's a 10-11K day, I want to fly over the back tomorrow if we have a chase driver. Maybe head for Barstow? WednesdayFlight report for Wednesday on my blog: http://www.designbydave.net/blog/2008/09/another-nice-day.html -Dave Meanwhile over at Sylmar yesterday.........I could have scored an extra 700' of altitude yesterday had I chosen Kagel over Crestline. ;-) Check out George Stebbin's misadventures at Sylmar while we are having fun over Crestline: |
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Thursday works for me.
Looks like we may see slightly better conditions as well. It could turnout to be a switch day. If so, I'll be out early; planning to launch around 12:00.