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En-Route
Well Today was one fine day!
Yesterday I spent all day at the gliderport (KHXF) putting together the club ships, and getting things organized for the flying season. The weather looked great for soaring, but unfortunately none of us got up into the air. Today was a different matter.
I got to the airport around 10:00 am to see Ted already rigging his Pegasus. Ted is a VERY good pilot, and seeing him rig this early is a good sign the weather is going to be good :smile:. A little late I met up with Paul my A&P and started my annual ($125, you power guys eat your heart out ). Now when you pull the lane out of the trailer you cannot not rig an fly it, right? Unfortunately I didn't get launched until almost 2:00pm. By this time the sky looked phenomenal. I got off in lift at about 2500' AGL, and just cruised around for the next three hours.
Here is my OLC trace for the day
http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/gliding/flightinfo.html?flightId=163649222
I ran into Kent, Marty, and I cannot remember the third guy's name after i landed, and they all helped me put away the glider. All In All not a bad day for the first flight of the year in the Ka-6
Here are some photos from today
Yesterday I spent all day at the gliderport (KHXF) putting together the club ships, and getting things organized for the flying season. The weather looked great for soaring, but unfortunately none of us got up into the air. Today was a different matter.
I got to the airport around 10:00 am to see Ted already rigging his Pegasus. Ted is a VERY good pilot, and seeing him rig this early is a good sign the weather is going to be good :smile:. A little late I met up with Paul my A&P and started my annual ($125, you power guys eat your heart out ). Now when you pull the lane out of the trailer you cannot not rig an fly it, right? Unfortunately I didn't get launched until almost 2:00pm. By this time the sky looked phenomenal. I got off in lift at about 2500' AGL, and just cruised around for the next three hours.
Here is my OLC trace for the day
http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/gliding/flightinfo.html?flightId=163649222
I ran into Kent, Marty, and I cannot remember the third guy's name after i landed, and they all helped me put away the glider. All In All not a bad day for the first flight of the year in the Ka-6
Here are some photos from today