11th Annual Highland Aerosports Fly In!

[markc]

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11th Annual Highland Aerosports Fly In : Sept 4th - 6th 2010

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MarkC

[carweill]

It was a very good weekend at Ridgely. Highland crew knows how to throw a party, food was great, fire, and snowboard roman-candle launcher. Even weather conditions cooperated. OK not Saturday with its wicked winds, not a glider was set-up.
Others that spent the weekend at Highland: Luis, Mauricio, Steve K, Kirk, Bob, Rich B, Travis, Christian, Jim Messina, John Simon, JD, Heather and I’m sure I missed someone.
PK brought the family. New pilot from Bulgaria, Milko(sp) had his family too.

Sunday
John Simon, JD, Mauricio and Steve had their XC flights. I look gained good altitude, but didn’t see any decent LZs and decided to return. Maybe Kirk has some pictures with his new glider.

Monday
Finally I was able to make it to Massey after trying a few times before. All it takes is a brain-dead day. My concern were all the crops, I didn’t want to end-up tangled in corn, so every distance I was willing to go there was a potential LZ. Ended up at Massey 5000ft over and took close to half an hour to find a sinkhole. The thought of going back cross my mind for a second, but if it took 2 hours to make it with favorable winds how long would it take to return? Not a record flight for the site by any means, just something I wanted to do.

Carlos

[mcelrah]

Cool! Congratulations, Carlos - I too have been wanting the farmers to harvest all that subsidized corn. Flying to a declared goal (even if the only one you declare it to is yourself) and making it is really satisfying. - Hugh

[pink_albatross]

Wow. Nice flying, Carlos!
CONGRATULATIONS!
Was there corn in all directions except back the way you came? (i suppose you couldn't try to beat it to the beach?)
Bummer. You should fly Dickey's next time.
Only problem there is the heavy metal cluttering up the skies.
-- ellis

[lbunner]

Super flight Carlos! I am stoked for you! Can't wait to do some more flying with you in the future. I'm headed to Santa Cruz Flats next so it could be awhile. Again, nice job.

[Dave Proctor]

Carlos--- Big Congratulations. Nice flight. Glad you made it. 5K ehhhh, shoulda kept on going into PA Hopefully we can keep cranking up the miles this fall.

DaveP