As long as the forecast doesn't go to crap, I'm planning on heading to Ridgely with approximately a Noon ETA. Waiting until the morning rush hour is over then heading out. Hopefully can get some airtime ... forecast doesn't look bad as long as winds don't increase.
Chris
Ridgley Hookie Friday
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Great day at Highland today. John S, Christy H, Christian and a few others showed up. I arrived around noon to high cirrus and lots of blue. Setup and launched. Pinned off at 1900 in a big fatty and climbed up to 3300 ... that was to be my high today. Lost that and spent the rest of the flight in 600-700 down. HUGE sink cycle. Waited about an hour and relaunched, once again pinning off early. Climbed to 2300 then lost it. Low save just North of the Runway too me up to 2600 slowly drifting to the West. Headed back to the field and arrived at 900 and was unzipped thinking landing was in my immediate future. Saw 4 Turkey Buzzards lifting off the plowed field just to the south. Pulled VG and pulled in over them and climbed back up to 2K. Played with them between 19-2000 and pimped off Christy for another climb. Finally sunk out and and toyed in zero sink over the south side of the field sticking between 600-700. Finally tired out and headed out to land in L&V conditions. Two flights for the day, two good landings and a lot of tired muscles. Lot of work to stay up since there were no puffies to mark the lift. Ended up being a great day off work ... finally the leave pays off!
Chris
Chris