MAKG1
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Maybe this isn't as weird as I think it is.
There was a lot of terrain turbulence in the East Bay today. I got bumped around quite a bit flying VFR below a 3000 foot broken ceiling, from Napa to Reid. IFR just takes too long, as ATC always seems to want the Point Reyes arrival, which is twice as long.
There was a LOT of cloud suck. Holding altitude was a chore.
I encountered a sailplane thermalling just outside Dublin. I would think it's a poor place, as it's under the same 3000 foot ceiling, and there aren't any obvious places to land out, except maybe the two crowded interstates that go through there. I think they could make Livermore. I couldn't in a glide, but a good sailplane should have four times my glide ratio.
To my knowledge, the nearest regular glider base is at Byron, very far out of gliding distance. There are plenty of closer ridges to that.
There was a lot of terrain turbulence in the East Bay today. I got bumped around quite a bit flying VFR below a 3000 foot broken ceiling, from Napa to Reid. IFR just takes too long, as ATC always seems to want the Point Reyes arrival, which is twice as long.
There was a LOT of cloud suck. Holding altitude was a chore.
I encountered a sailplane thermalling just outside Dublin. I would think it's a poor place, as it's under the same 3000 foot ceiling, and there aren't any obvious places to land out, except maybe the two crowded interstates that go through there. I think they could make Livermore. I couldn't in a glide, but a good sailplane should have four times my glide ratio.
To my knowledge, the nearest regular glider base is at Byron, very far out of gliding distance. There are plenty of closer ridges to that.