Pulpit Saturday

[XCanytime]

Any interest? I sure hope more than last Saturday . Bacil

[DanTuck]

You have my attention....

[theflyingdude]

Bacil, what happened at the Pulpit last Saturday? We flew High Point after mowing/cutting launch and the set-up area, but rather than the predicted NW 5 - 10 mph wind, it was L&V (and blowing OTB at times) so everyone ended up taking straight sleds to the LZ.

[pnadams]

Last Saturday I got there around noon. Denis Scheele was setting up. It was blowing in light, switching north cross then straight. I set up and then watched Ellis and Lazlo (sp?) plummet. Around 3:30 I launched an scratched around in the trees for about 15 min. Denis followed and had a similar flight. Ellis then embarrassed the HG pilots by getting up for an hour(?).

[pink_albatross]

Hey, I actually got 300 feet over on my first flight!
(Okay, so I plummeted shortly after that.)

Second flight was to almost 3000 feet over and about 1.5 hour, very surprising as it was late in the day and I had expected a sled and was dressed accordingly. brrrr... Not that I'm complaining.

Third flight was 30 feet over.

Three flights, 30 feet, 300 feet, 3000 feet, it was a good day for the number 3. No sleds.

-- ellis
(fudged a little on the second flight to make the number 3. it was only about 2500 feet over)

[pink_albatross]

Btw, no embarrassment necessary. It was the kind of day where you had to have a superslow aircraft. Maybe a falcon or a target could have done something with it.
-- ellis