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Posted by Cy
on 5/20/2009, 1:27 pm, in reply to "Thank you Rick Lafford !"
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Thanks Rick - Great Tow !!
Cy
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: Once again, another FLSC tow pilot selflessly
: and reluctantly leaves their work slog and
: drives from Rochester to Dansville to enable
: the infamous, feckless, and essentially
: derelict "Weekday Flyers" to play
: in their sky-box. To top it off, Rick had to
: wait an extra half hour since we got a late
: start, thanks to yours truly. So how was it?
: To quote FLSC's WBM (weather big-mouth)
: "Monday could still be quite good,
: although probably not super". But I
: also need to mention I didn't think things
: would start cooking till after noon, after a
: night of radiation cooling and a surface
: inversion to punch through, and a frost
: warning the previous night. But there was no
: frost, because during the night, a
: short-wave feature passed over western NY,
: avec a high stratus deck, and kept
: temperatures up, and thus less work for the
: sun to do the next morning. By about 10:30
: AM the sky over East Bethany was already
: covered with good-looking cumuli...wow, I
: thought, maybe a super day after all. But
: that chunk of vorticity, picked up by the
: progs as far back as Friday, did come
: through and mess things up, relatively. We
: were finally ready to launch ~ 2, by which
: time the clouds were already starting to
: look a tad funky. Sure enough, Mark got off
: tow in a huge chunk of sucker-lift and had
: to relight. After that however, we all (Mark
: and Doug: Pegasi; Cy: Blanik; Ray: Grob) had
: a fun day. Not that you could effortlessly
: "go anywhere". You had to pick you
: cloud field carefully, and there were
: bodacious sink areas too. That damn
: vorticity again. Still, cloud base due to
: low humidity was ~ 8K MSL, excellent in
: spite of the leaves and vegetation now
: proliferating, and you definitely were not
: tied to the airport. We all landed around
: 5-ish so as to get home at a reasonable
: hour, although by that time the vort-max had
: passed to the east and the lift was better
: than ever.
:
: Note: the relatively dry spring is
: continuing. No measurable precip for the
: rest of the week. On the average, soaring
: conditions are only going to get better. So,
: how much hooky can you get away with?
:
: Ray
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