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Posted by RIZ, DOUG & GANG on 10/11/2009, 3:24 pm, in reply to "CONGRATULATIONS JAKE!"
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Best to you Jake, and if you ever need a CFI job let us know! Fly high, have fun and be safe (theres that word again). Doug and Jim and the whole club :o)
--Previous Message--
: Yesterday Jake soloed on his 14th birthday!
: Unfortunately I along with brother CZ missed
: it, as we were floating about in our glass
: slippers, struggling with thermals weakened
: by the accursed and thickening cirrostratus
: the forecaster underestimated. Thanks to
: Jari, Rick K, Chuck T, and others for making
: it possible. I understand the much-deserved
: inundation was performed by fellow junior
: Alex. Now that Jake is old enough to both
: fly solo and date girls, he will ultimately
: find the latter to be more exciting...and
: dangerous.
:
: If you wake up Saturday morning and it looks
: sh###y, don't go back to bed. The front is
: lingering, because the steering winds at
: 700,500, & 300mb are all nearly parallel
: to it. Or to use fancy talk, the component
: of the jet stream perpendicular to the long
: axis of the surface front is minimal.
: Anyway, by the afternoon the sky will clear
: in time for a nice soaring day, followed by
: our Octoberfest (did you call Rick L for a
: reservation?). Sunday will be very
: interesting. VFR all day with a dry cold
: front passing through in the middle of it,
: which means: (1) cold advection plus dry
: ground (tonight's system will drop <
: 0.5" rain) makes for real thermals (2)
: brisk, heads-up west wind means ridge
: working, plus thermal triggering from it,
: and (3) winds aloft, as the front comes
: through, could pop a wave (wear wool socks).
: What about Columbus day? We should fly!
: Models earlier this week couldn't agree at
: all, but now they have converged on a
: nice-day solution. Maybe even a moderate
: task day, such as silver distance or
: duration.
:
: Prudence....priceless.
:
: Ray
:
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