Saturday 12/5
Moderators:ioan, John Wolfe, aaroncromer, jlowery
If conditions are good, I'll be trying to fly on Saturday. Looks like Mustang or Box could be good.
Knowing that there would be no thermals popping because it was so overcast, and noticing that the winds aloft, though fierce, only increased at about 5 mph per 1000 feet (and knowing that I'd never get more than a couple hundred feet over launch, if that), I went ahead and flew Mustang today. Not without a decent amount of waiting to make sure that the winds weren't in the habit of suddenly changing, mind you. When I first got there it was 5-15 on the ground, but it died down significantly and it was about that same magnitude at the top when I got there.
It was a beautiful day for ridge soaring at the 'Stangs. I believe it was my longest flight ever, actually. 95 minutes. I popped over to the biscuit and back several times. Love that little guy. Couldn't make it to Bruno though, as the wind had a big S component to it. The air was pretty laminar, never really surprised me. Fingers sure were freezy though! I had to warm up in my car for ten minutes or so after the flight.
I'm starting to get hugely infatuated with Mustang!
It was a beautiful day for ridge soaring at the 'Stangs. I believe it was my longest flight ever, actually. 95 minutes. I popped over to the biscuit and back several times. Love that little guy. Couldn't make it to Bruno though, as the wind had a big S component to it. The air was pretty laminar, never really surprised me. Fingers sure were freezy though! I had to warm up in my car for ten minutes or so after the flight.
I'm starting to get hugely infatuated with Mustang!