Looks like a nice day, should be good soaring, light winds, bit blue to begin but with some cu’s later in the day. Come out and soar. Potentially a good day for a Silver or a Proving Grounds flight (there have been no submissions yet this year).
As of now Friday Wx marginal and Saturday Wx does not look good. So weekend plan slightly revised:
Fri – Will not have fully scheduled day. Alasdair has signed up to tow on the mid-week schedule. Will show up if we get a few pilots signing up under “Wanting Tows”. So, if you want to fly tomorrow, sign up. Sorry – no instruction;
Sat – Looking at the Wx we are calling Saturday a no-fly day. Operations cancelled.
Sun – Wx looks good. Full schedule of operations. Meeting / Cookout planned for Saturday will be moved to Sunday after flying
Memorial Day – Wx looks good – Full schedule of operations.
Hope to see a good turn-out Sunday and Monday. Come out and fly. As always, if you need instruction please sign up to help us plan.
See you at the airport.
As a reminder this weekend (Memorial weekend) is also the last weekend of the month so cookout and monthly membership meeting time – Saturday after flying. Bring a dish to share and an appetite.
Larry is keeping an eye on the weather and will update if needs to be pushed to Sunday. Hopefully most of you will be hanging for the extra day of flying anyway.
See you at the airport for the long weekend.
Another nice weekend. Saturday while breezy had some good training activity and intro flights. Sunday (mothers day) brought great soaring conditions. B9, Q2, WQ, YZ, PT and Andy in the club 1-34 all took advantage of the conditions for some long soaring flights. New member Tim Renner (who holds a Private SEL) came out too and had his first glider lesson with Alasdair in one of the 2-33’s and with the great conditions got to experience what soaring is all about.
Weather looks decent all week. Remember the mid-week soaring sign-up on the scheduling system. If you want to fly or can volunteer to tow, please sign up!
In the days leading up, today looked to be a pretty decent soaring day. The strong gusty winds we’ve seen for weeks were forecast to subside to a more friendly 8-10 kts. Jim Malecha arrived to tow, Andy Kozak, Bill Detrich, Brian Xander and, eventually, after having to w##k, Alasdair arrived to fly, Larry ran ground.
Soaring was not to happen today. Andy launched in the club 1-34 around 12:30 and towed to 2000′ AGL and released in a 200 fpm thermal…which quickly petered out and no more lift was found. As Jim landed the tug and taxied back to tow Brian, staged on the runway, Andy radioed “left downwind for 29, landing long on the grass.”
Right after Andy landed, Brian launched in VOL and towed to 3000′ AGL and found glassy smooth air.
Andy took a second tow to 2000′ and before he’d released, Brian radioed on downwind for landing.
With those results, Bill and Alasdair decided today was not meant for soaring. We all agreed that with it sunny and temps in the mid 50’s, it was a great day to be at the airport.
Jerry is towing tomorrow (Friday), Greg is the only sign up so far to fly. Tow pilot and instructors are available Saturday, so far no one has signed up to fly. C’mon out!
Sunday is Mother’s Day. Alasdair will be giving new member Tim Renner his first glider instructional flight if a tow pilot is available.
Please choose a date and put your name on the calendar to fly, tow, or run ground support.
A great weekend of soaring!.
Saturday was breezy but saw good lift with lots of club member and intro flight activity. B9 reported 9,500ft in wave. Several flights of 3 hours or more. Monthly meeting on Saturday evening was lightly attended however and did not attain a quorum.
Sunday, was blue but again lift was great. The Orange 2-33 got assembled and flown, so all club ships are now back on the flight-line for the season. Several long flights again with altitudes up to about 8,000ft.
The season is in full Spring fling. Get out here and fly.