Ridgely Wednesday

[stevek]

As luck would have it, I had today off also. Much better than yesterday. A bit weird tho. Nothing nada upwind of the field. You could drive all over the place upwind and listen to the sink alarm. Lots of good stuff a couple miles south. Plus the ever present line of cumis 5 - 8 miles east. Got to 5200 (not base but close). Danny, Dale and I.

[Danny Brotto]

As Steve reports, it was pretty good downwind of the field. Off tow, sank down to 1000 AGL but found 60 ft/minute off the west end of the runway. It got nicely solid at 2000ft to 4K; it got pretty cold there despite the mid-90's on the ground. Bobbled around the town (Ridgley) getting low to warm up and then getting high just because. Maxed and bailed a couple of times at 4200 because I'm into comfort and it was cold up there. Landed after the shoulder started bothering me too much; forgot the vitamin A(dvil).

The Aerosports crew was playing with an eclectic "scooter" tow. The system is getting debugged and looks very promising. I'd pull behind it!

Danny Brotto