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Posted by Doug C on 6/15/2009, 7:12 pm, in reply to "Sunday flying, Tuesday flying?"
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I concur with Ray; the soaring was excellent on Sunday with cloudbase reaching 7200msl near Wellsville plus large areas of strong lift between DSV to Wellsville and then on to Painted Post. However, I ran into steady 200-300fpm sink in the vicinity of the Painted Post turn point that shot me down from 6000'msl in about 20 minutes. A great day of soaring was topped off by an enjoyable drive home with Tom who kindly rescued me.
Doug
--Previous Message--
: Yesterday was an idyllic late spring day, blue
: sky and puffy cumuli. Actually a bit too
: puffy since dewpoints in the first 10K feet
: were on the high side and a few modest
: cumulus castellani were about. Nonetheless a
: good time was had by all. Instruction,
: especially of juniors, marched forward
: thanks to the indefatigable Jim Rizzo. Jack
: made a valiant attempt in the 1-26 towards
: the Bronze Badge 2 hour requirement, and the
: glass ships went out to play. Tom scooted
: north in his Jantar to my home town of East
: Bethany. I thought about that, but didn't
: have the cojones to go past Letchworth Gorge
: in the Grob (accompanied part way by my
: brother CZ), as I had no crew. At one point,
: thermaling at 4k, I got scared out of my
: wits by what I thought was a Waco or some
: such about to hit me, only to realize it was
: the sound of the Allisons roaring below at
: the tractor pull. I landed after about 3.4
: hours at 5:20, thanks to the generosity of
: Rick Roman who could have called me down,
: and could have stayed up longer, had I not
: misjudged a cloud due to a "gymnastic
: plumbing" exercise (I was wearing a
: shute too!). Doug charged off to Corning,
: then got shot down at Painted Post on the
: way back, and had to be fetched by Tom. As
: he put it "Everything quit", which
: can happen to the best of us.
:
: Well I really hope those stupid
: meteorologists are wrong about the
: long-range forecast because this weekend is
: looking crummy. Ergo, if anyone is
: interested, tomorrow looks to be another
: good day, so if people are interested, let's
: try. I really have way too much work to do,
: but what the hell, life is short.
:
: Ray
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