Well, the weather gods smiled on us today at Fairfield, and we got in a great ridge day. CD Erik Mann called a 3.5hour MAT with the first turnpoint at the traditional entry to the ridge system. That was the good news. The bad news was that he also made it a ‘long MAT’ with…
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Landout Day at Fairfield (US Region 4 North)
by Bill Elliott •
The day dawned foggy and cloudy, so my plan for the day was to do some Micro-Castle maintenance, and to drive over the mountain to Waynesboro, Pa to physically inspect the area around the High Rock turnpoint. This turnpoint is the entrance to the High Rock transition back to Fairfield, and I wanted to look…
Day 1 at Fairfield (US Region 4 North)
by Bill Elliott •
Well, we finally got a day in – yay! This morning the sun was bright and the skies were clear – no fog, no rain – time to assemble. Because the rain has made large parts of the Fairfield trailer parking area somewhat squishy, many of the locals and some of us visitors have taken…
Almost a contest day at Fairfield (US Region 4 North)
by Bill Elliott •
When I got up this morning, I wouldn’t have given a plugged nickle for our chances of flying at all today, much less the idea of getting a contest day in. Low fog and overcast – no chance. However, when I emerged from the Micro-Castle at about 0800, there were already glider trailers out on…
Rain Day at Fairfield (R4N)
by Bill Elliott •
I arrived at Fairfield, Pa for the Region 4 North contest yesterday afternoon, driving up the taxiway to the hangar area under gray skies. The weather has gotten steadily worse since then, and so now I’m sitting in the Micro-Castle on Sunday afternoon, and it has been drizzling rain all day long – bummer. …
