Hyner 4th

[CraginS]

Believe it or not I am considering a Hyner sojourn next week. Been a few years, so I was Google-mapping to remind myself of the route. Flipped over to the Earth view at destination. Wadda ya know!

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[brianvh]

Mapping has become scary-high resolution. I can almost look in the windows of my apartment in apple maps...and I thought the 7th floor gave me some privacy!

[andybalkphysics]

July 4 is one of the really good Hyners, fireworks, swimming in the river, campfires, and of course flying. We have Hyner (SW-NW, HG and PG) plus a bunch of other sites within about an hour.

I'll be headed up on Thursday!

-Andy

[silverwings]

Will be arriving on Thursday.

[Dunegoon]

Headed up Friday night.

Charles

717-829-4943

[silverwings]

Arrived on Thursday afternoon with some storms and there may have been a morning flight or two. Friday was windy and cross. Saturday was the a good day and I did a PG soaring flight for 20 min, then a 12 min hg soaring flight on Falcon 3-170, followed by 2+ hours on my U2 getting to 3000 above. Lots of pilots there on Saturday with a fair bit of soaring depending on your timing. A few people did some no wind sleds on Sunday when the cross calmed for a launch. Left around 11:30 to head home so there may have been more flying later. Nice weather and temps for the July 4th weekend!

[CraginS]

While there was no flying on Friday the 4th, Saturday and Sunday allowed for multiple flights.


http://youtu.be/CWcJ-S-lcj0


http://youtu.be/lHH-7Ys8c3w

[Dunegoon]

Arrived late Friday afternoon and was greeted by the usual friendly and enthusiastic "campers" and other fellow scoundrels. Great fireworks and comradery. I retired early and enjoyed a beautiful starry night in a dark velvet sky. Left my tent fly off so I could watch the sky. It was stunning. Temps went to 50F or below. Had every spare piece of clothing on to stay warm. Did not have a lot of time to fly on Saturday (had to be home by 6) so tried to make the best of it. I will let the short video tell the story. It may surprize you.

[Dunegoon]

I still can't edit my own posting as per my "permissions" so here is the corrected link to the video.

http://vimeo.com/100274890

[Ward Odenwald]

For me, there are only a few things in this sport that can top the thrill of a low save.

Thanks for posting yours!

Ward

[Matthew]

Awesome job Charlie!

Matthew

[CraginS]

Oh, yeah, I also flew, once each on Saturday and Sunday. Nothing spectacular, but I made it back into the mountains after a long dry spell. Beautiful night sky, great fireworks, clear days. And BVH invented a new evening entertainment. Naming rights are still open, but I am calling it Fire Crackin'!

http://youtu.be/NG1Gg5d0JA8



About that embedding thing - I am also having trouble with that.

[FlyingFelix]

Charly, thanks for sharing! Awesome flight. A low save might just be the best feeling in HG

[markc]

Sorry for the trouble with embedding video links. The basic procedure is to find the identifier ofyour vid at YouTube or vimeo, usually a number, or an alphanumeric string of numbers and letters, enter that identifier in your post, double click to highlight the identifier, and then click the YouTube/Vimeo button.

Keep meaning to put together a tutorial, but you know how it goes....

Cragin, not sure about "youtu.be", probably won't work with that site.

MarkC

[markc]

OMG, had no idea what was behind the youtu.be thing .... But here's one take:

http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/sho ... p?t=687485

Gack! The forum's YouTube button might know about this domain chicanery.... Or it might not, sorry, can't say for sure.

[CraginS]

Mark, I tried using the video ID number in the youtube brackets. when I submit the edited message, tha tline simply disapperas. My edited version has that above,
Yes, I used to be able to use the ID like you described. Not now, though.

Craig

[XCanytime]

Cragin,
Nice video and music especially. I'm curious about your approaches into the Hyner LZ. Why did you stage out over the river/bridge area? From the video you look a little low to me on the altitude side of things. Thanks in advance. Bacil

[CraginS]

Cragin,
Nice video and music especially. I'm curious about your approaches into the Hyner LZ. Why did you stage out over the river/bridge area? From the video you look a little low to me on the altitude side of things. Thanks in advance. Bacil

Bacil,
Approach direction was based on wind direction on a light and switchy day, with some south in the wind direction. Yes, normally Hyner should be approached from the south on a typical NW launch day. On one of my flights the wind was SW light, and I used a no-wind launch run during a lull, as did the pilot who launched just before me.

As far as approach altitude, yes, I was a bit lower than I should have been. Scolded myself privately, and got a reminder from John M afterwards, also. Mea culpa.