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Posted by Chuck Zabinski Wow, a great way to end the Labor Day Weekend.
on 9/6/2007, 11:37 pm
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On Labor Day, a wave developed over Dansville. If you remember the day, the wind was out of the west on the ridge. The day started sunny but a weak front moved in with a cloud deck from the north. I got towed up expecting a short day of ridge flying due to the cloud deck. After an hour of noodling around and catching a few weak thermals off the ridge, I was thinking about getting ready to land. As I was cruising the ridge, I caught a really good thermal over Rick and Ann's house which took me up to 5000 MSL. There were a few semi lenticular clouds which went from directly over Dansville to Perkinsville. I suddenly found smooth rising air on the north edge of the cloud and could fly without turning. I turned back east over 390 and kept flying straight in the wave until I got to north of Wayland. I then jumped to another wave over Perkinsville. You could fly all around the area in rising air without turning. The clouds started to close in under me at about 6500' MSL. I turned back west and found a clear space and descended, The wave was persistent for about 2 hours. I believe the wave developed because of constant west wind up to 5000 ft with a north wind due to the front at higher altitude. I flew around for about an hour in the wave. It was a lot better soaring day than I anticpated when we launched. There was some rough air due to the wave rotor as I descended but it was a relatively small rotor which you could pass through quickly.
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