Walter233
Filing Flight Plan
Well, lets start with Saturday's 2...
So, I got out to the glider club at around 11AM, winds were out of variable from 180 - 230 from 14kts. gusting to 20 earlier from 1-5PM. So, I take a dual flight around the pattern to get solo current again, we launch from 28 and the flight went fine, current for another 45 days. My instructor wanted me to wait a bit for the winds to die as it was still gusting to about 18kts. with a 80-90 degree crosswind, so an hour and a half later the wind is sustained at 11kts and I decide to take one solo flight on Saturday. So, we launch from 28 and bump our way up, as I passed 2,000, I thought I had found some consistant 1,000FPM up lift and decided to release to find that it was just "sucker lift"
. Back down at 1,650 the vario starts coming up to 200 up, and I worked my way back up to 2,000, then 1,700, and back up to 1,900 before I decended down to Pattern altitude, so I entered the crosswind for 28, I did a good pattern and made a decent landing, I had 16 minutes on that flight. So I had decided i'd wait to see like what it was tomorrow for another flight.
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Sunday:
Wow today was a much better day, the average flight time was an hour and a half with the longest of the day being 2:02. So I launch from 32 today, and go up to 3,000. Immeadiately off tow I found some 500 FPM up, which brought me up to 3,700, before I fell out of the thermal, (Today, you had to be in a 50-70 degree bank to stay in it any thermals as I had found.) So I searched around and back at 3,000 I found another strong thermal, and I got near the cloud base (4,000 ft.) before that thermal topped out. After that there was strong sink (700-1,000 +FPM down.) before I found another thermal a bit downwind at 2.600Ft which brought me back to 3,400. After that I found two more thermals, before I had to come down because I had to leave
. So I entered the pattern, and made an awesome landing, and got 40 minutes that flight. All in all a good flight for me, and the longest solo glider flight i've made. 
Hoping to get over an hour the next time!
-Walter
So, I got out to the glider club at around 11AM, winds were out of variable from 180 - 230 from 14kts. gusting to 20 earlier from 1-5PM. So, I take a dual flight around the pattern to get solo current again, we launch from 28 and the flight went fine, current for another 45 days. My instructor wanted me to wait a bit for the winds to die as it was still gusting to about 18kts. with a 80-90 degree crosswind, so an hour and a half later the wind is sustained at 11kts and I decide to take one solo flight on Saturday. So, we launch from 28 and bump our way up, as I passed 2,000, I thought I had found some consistant 1,000FPM up lift and decided to release to find that it was just "sucker lift"
. Back down at 1,650 the vario starts coming up to 200 up, and I worked my way back up to 2,000, then 1,700, and back up to 1,900 before I decended down to Pattern altitude, so I entered the crosswind for 28, I did a good pattern and made a decent landing, I had 16 minutes on that flight. So I had decided i'd wait to see like what it was tomorrow for another flight.____________________
Sunday:
Wow today was a much better day, the average flight time was an hour and a half with the longest of the day being 2:02. So I launch from 32 today, and go up to 3,000. Immeadiately off tow I found some 500 FPM up, which brought me up to 3,700, before I fell out of the thermal, (Today, you had to be in a 50-70 degree bank to stay in it any thermals as I had found.) So I searched around and back at 3,000 I found another strong thermal, and I got near the cloud base (4,000 ft.) before that thermal topped out. After that there was strong sink (700-1,000 +FPM down.) before I found another thermal a bit downwind at 2.600Ft which brought me back to 3,400. After that I found two more thermals, before I had to come down because I had to leave
. So I entered the pattern, and made an awesome landing, and got 40 minutes that flight. All in all a good flight for me, and the longest solo glider flight i've made. Hoping to get over an hour the next time!
-Walter
