We have been watching the weather all week looking at this weekend being really good. Today was an excellent gliding day – although it was completely blue – not a cloud in the sky. The official task was a 513 km flight out to Westpoint, down to an airport / dam called PK Le Roux,…
June 26, 2012 We experienced gusty turbulent conditions on Tuesday at the WSPA annual seminar at Chilhowee Gliderport in Benton TN. The temperatures were a few degrees cooler than the previous day, which made it easier to be at the flight line all day. The ridge, plus a few thermals, starting working for us mid-afternoon. …
Today was my 60th birthday and they presented me with a big chocolate cake at the pilot’s meeting. It went with fish & chips for supper at the end of the day. I can’t imagine a better birthday than being here with friends flying gliders in November. The day was completely blue and we declared…
99 Soaring Fans, Bravo Zulu here. Today was another flying day here at Caesar Creek. Although not as strong as the first 2 fly days, it was workable and most participants stayed on the task and made it home. There were a few relights and getting away from CCSC was a challenge. Sparing you all a blow-by-blow…
99 Soaring Fans, This Is Bravo Zulu With A Report From CCSC XC Camp Day 2 Today we followed the schedule and the weather cooperated, sort of. For the morning lecture, John Lubon shared his philosophy with us on thermalling techniques and gave examples of what to do above and below the “hard deck” of 2000 feet…
While this is not quite a race, it is a gathering of soaring pilots interested in improving their flying skills in general and xc skills in particular. Out of this group, will come future contest pilots, xc pilots and better pilots.
The weather here changes so fast. Last night it was really windy and the morning was cold and blowing. But, by the 10 am pilots meeting it had died down and was looking like a pretty good day. We set a 410 km chevron shaped task with the first turn at Westpoint (where we clear…
Today looked promising for thermal strength but with a real risk that high winds would blow the thermals apart. I launched second in line and got off at 1.4 AGL into a great 7.7 kt thermal that took me to 10.5 K altitude. I set out on course – and that was the last good…
Today promised to be warmer and we hoped for some better soaring conditions. Unfortunately the last two remaining visiting Vintage gliders, the Ka-8 and Ka-10, loaded up and left this morning. We were sorry to see them go but hoped that it meant good things for our potential. Pete VonTresckow and I had earned a…
Leah and I arrived late last night for the Vintage Sailplane Association‘s rally here at Chilhowee Gliderport. Unfortunately we weren’t able to bring a glider since we flew down on a Boeing 717 courtesy of Air Tran. However, we figured we would be able to rent some of the gliders here from Sarah and…
