Good news, George!

I had a “low save” on my wallet yesterday too. It must have worked itself loose in my pocket and fell out the second I touched down in the LZ. I went into panic mode after I discovered its loss but lucked out and found it after walking the LZ in the dark :)

That’s exciting progress! Thank you gents for your efforts – they are appreciated.

That’s one hot lookin’ leading edge.

Ah – I missed that detail. That makes sense.

In this case, it was lucky that someone was finally able to get ahold of the pilot. I and a couple others on the same frequency were above the downed pilot and none of us saw movement – just the wing spread out on the bushes. Since there was no word from the pilot and we were all seeing the same thing, I believe the request to call 911 was already issued on the radio, but I think someone at the LZ was able to establish comms with the pilot and the all-clear went out a few minutes later. Overall good outcome and was good to hear that there were no injuries.

Second all of the above – day did not disappoint, especially in the dead of winter. I chose to be the wind dummy and launched first from Crestline. Max was 7100’ (behind Crestline and later in the day), and flew for just over 2.5 hours. There was a party at Billboard late in the day with several pilots boating around in the abundant lift.