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Posted by Jack Gilbert
on 9/15/2009, 8:28 pm, in reply to "Rick's Bomb"
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We had NO instructor scheduled for this past Sunday. Thank you Jim Rizzo for filling in!!
--Previous Message--
: Unfortunately the progs were generally
: accurate re this past weekend. Actually
: Saturday we could have flown...it was VFR as
: promised, but barely. We had a tow pilot,
: instructor, and a couple of students, but no
: one was interested in practicing rope
: breaks.
:
: Sunday dawned sunny. I purposely didn't
: mention the back door cold front swinging
: through in the middle of the day lest
: someone be discouraged from coming down,
: hoping it would be rainfree (it was) and
: brief (not). Finally around 3 Rick's bomb
: went off, which of course is the sun. When
: the clouds started breaking up, things got
: cranking, and yes you could have stayed up
: the rest of the day. BTW, how long do you
: think it takes the sun to release energy
: equivalent to all the nuclear weapons in the
: world? Not long, you guess? Try one
: millionth of a second, give or take.
:
: So tomorrow's another bomb of a day. NE wind
: not a problem this late in the season (you
: know why), and good cold advection to boot.
: WEST side of valley kicking off thermals,
: augmented by 390 diesels. Some people are
: definitely interested in flying, so off to
: the phones.
:
: Ray
:
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