The title is an exaggeration, but not by much. We have had 4 contest days here at Mifflin; two of them have been 4 hour tasks, and the ones that weren’t 4 hours were 3 and 3.5 hours. These are national-level tasks no matter what you call the contest.
Mifflin is internationally famous for its ridge days, and we typically get one ridge day per contest here. Well, we got one yesterday, but I’m thinking now it was a case of “be careful what you ask for – you might get it”. I’ve been flying here in contests for over a decade, and yesterday’s…
Today (and quite possibly tomorrow as well) is a rain day here at the Mifflin Region 2 Soaring Contest, so Karl Striedieck was gracious enough to sit with me and go over the many airports/airstrips in the current (2014) database to cull out the bad and verify the good ones.
I believe it was in ‘Little Big Man’ where an indian (Native American to be politically correct) Medicine Man decides to end his own life using his special powers. When he doesn’t die, his comment to Dustin Hoffman was “Sometimes the magic works, and sometimes it doesn’t”. Well, that’s what happened today at Mifflin; CD Pepe…
Today was a classic Mifflin non-ridge day. A very unstable air mass with a significant cap kept us from getting T-storms, but we had just about everything else – wave, wave suppression, 8-10kt thermals, streets (some even aligned with the wind), blue holes, high overcast, spreadout, rain showers, snow showers, and just about anything else that…
I’ve had a number of people asking why I haven’t been posting on Soaring Cafe this year. I have no real answer to this – I just haven’t felt like it up (and still don’t, really). In answer to the many inquiries, I have started telling people that my Muse abandoned me, and I can’t seem to…
