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Posted by Ray
on 9/22/2009, 6:02 am
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Indeed a glorious last-summer weekend. The soaring was good albeit not super, which might have been known if someone had had time to check Skew-T charts. Saturday began with a well-attended, > 2-hour long, very productive Board meeting. After that, CHUCK TAFT, CY, and JARI, assisted by RICK R, spent a couple of hours researching critical maintenance records, and nailed down any loose ends. Meanwhile DOUG BRADLEY, as usual working quietly and selflessly for the club, got the internet connection going again...a major advance. Just as well the long meeting, as the soaring day started late, but by afternoon ships were sustaining, with Chuck Z and Jim M having 3+ hour flights. The weather geek towed to Dave's Gulch and after fooling around in weak lift at 2.5k AGL for 15 min, ignored several glass ships just east of the BMHS about 1,000' higher, and took off like a bat out of hell for 390, since his advanced knowledge of convection suggested diesel exhaust triggering, and....10 minutes later analyzed the experiment sitting on the ground. Eventually everyone came back to earth, the burgers and hots were thawed out and cooked, and we had a nice picnic augmented by fresh veggies and melon from McNair's.
Sunday's weather was similar, with weak but usable blue thermals. We had lots of company: the Geneseo Pilots Association invited by Chuck T, and a bunch of passengers too. And students: the 21 and BF were going all day long. Thanks to RICK ROMAN for filling in my Ops duty while I entertained people in the too-small-for-him BF. JACK was everywhere. RIZ of course was running around BOTH days wearing his towpilot, instructor, DE, free-legal-advisor, and whatever hats.
Ray
PS When satellite maps became available, people who spend their days staring at them noticed something peculiar in visible imagery of Massachusetts: a curious line of isolated Cumuli, running east-to-west across the whole state, and seemingly independent of the synoptic situation (AKA where the fronts were). You guessed it: the cars and trucks on the Mass Pike generate enough boundary layer instability to trigger that.
Humility...Priceless
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