West at 6 and less of a chance of storms for Sunday. Anyone interested in escaping the heat of DC and gong to the Pulpit on Sunday?
Also, Karen and I are thinking of canoeing the Antietam Creek on Saturday-- also to escape the heat. Give me a holler at (mcgraham20 at hotmail.com) if interested.
Matthew
Pulpit Sunday July 1
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rasmussenv
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Re: Pulpit Sunday
I would like to fly this weekend and will be watching the weather to figure out where and when. I wish it would work somewhere for Saturday, but am not seeing that right now.
Valerie
Re: Pulpit Sunday July 1
I'd love to fly the Pulpit Sunday if it's PGable. Getting in the water on Saturday sounds like a great idea too.
Dan
Dan
Re: Pulpit Sunday July 1
I'm considering The Pulpit, given that the TFR is up for High Rock. The forecast has increased a bit, but things look doable, especially early in the day. You still thinking about it Matthew? And maybe Jesse & Jon, even though you guys just flew there?
I might camp up there tonight, if my power doesn't come back....
MarkC
PS: Found a couple URLs that are useful for the P-40 TFR. Search for "ZDC" at the first URL. The second URL is for the TFR with "Hagerstown/Thurmont" in the description.
http://tfr.faa.gov/tfr2/list.html
http://tfr.faa.gov/save_pages/detail_2_3696.html
I might camp up there tonight, if my power doesn't come back....
MarkC
PS: Found a couple URLs that are useful for the P-40 TFR. Search for "ZDC" at the first URL. The second URL is for the TFR with "Hagerstown/Thurmont" in the description.
http://tfr.faa.gov/tfr2/list.html
http://tfr.faa.gov/save_pages/detail_2_3696.html
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Danny Brotto
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Re: Pulpit Sunday July 1
Looking at McConnelsburg for Sunday. Will double check in the am.
Danny Brotto
Danny Brotto
Re: Pulpit Sunday July 1
The ADDS 3k forecast is currently predicting a bit of a back-off between 8am and noon tomorrow, so I'm a bit more encouraged than previously.... The NWS surface forecast claims W@10-15, while the hourly claims WNW becoming true NW by 3pm, so I don't know which one to believe in that regard.
WS seems light, and I'm not motivated to head to Highland given the combo of beach-weekend and power-outage traffic, so I'm hoping that it'll be an ok Pulpit day! Who's in??
MarkC
WS seems light, and I'm not motivated to head to Highland given the combo of beach-weekend and power-outage traffic, so I'm hoping that it'll be an ok Pulpit day! Who's in??
MarkC
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Danny Brotto
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Re: Pulpit Sunday July 1
Mark
I'm leaning towards McConnelsburg and will doublecheck in the am... but when it's an oven at 0 AGL, and the wind is even slightly into to the mountain... party on!
Danny Brotto
I'm leaning towards McConnelsburg and will doublecheck in the am... but when it's an oven at 0 AGL, and the wind is even slightly into to the mountain... party on!
Danny Brotto
Re: Pulpit Sunday July 1
I would be interested in possibly flying the Pulpit tomorrow. I can't seem to find directions and can't access the members only area. Can anyone forward me a link to directions to the pulpit?
Thanks,
Matt
Thanks,
Matt
Re: Pulpit Sunday July 1
Hitting the road for the Pulpit!
Re: Pulpit Sunday July 1
It was an odd sort of day..... Pilots included Doug R, Matt, myself, Danny B, Karen, and Matthew. Plus Steve Padgett (no longer flying, but able to lend a hand on wire crew).
I flew relatively early, launching after Doug (maybe 12:30 or so?). I found conditions to be very challenging. And although I tried to follow Doug's lead (getting lift out in the valley) I couldn't replicate what he was getting no matter how hard I tried. Maybe 200' or 300' over for the majority of my flight, unable to grab anything solid, with a pronounced WSW cross down low. I eventually just started to push-way-out in lift, punching out from the ridge, and then doing a tight downwind ellipse to stay in the lift for a bit. That was at the very end of my flight, and finally allowed me to break 800' over. Duh! Doug was doing WAY better than I was, I think he had things figured out in the first 20 minutes.
Cirrus moved in and shut things down, so I landed after maybe 1:15 or so. Then back up top to help the others launch. Matthew was already in the air in his PG, and I watched him head OTB with about 2k over launch. Then, wouldn't you know, the scuz burned off, and with that the winds started to really pick up. We tried to launch Matt twice from the right ramp, but things were just too gnarly. Danny decided to bag it. And then the hang-waiting set in.....
I chased after Matthew and picked him up a couple miles past Rt 30 and Rt 75. He was basically blown there from the school (just OTB) on strong WSW winds.
After waiting for hours, we got Matt into the air, and then Karen shortly after. Both had good launches, and they got to enjoy some late-day boating at probably 800' over the ridge. By that point, the winds were significantly *north* cross. Like, REALLY north! I sure didn't see that coming in any of the forecasts I looked at.
I camped at launch Sunday night, with an in-the-dark scramble to get the rainfly up after I realized that some bad weather was moving in. A bit of thunder & lightning, and a bit of rain, but no problems staying dry. And no 'derecho', thankfully!
MarkC
I flew relatively early, launching after Doug (maybe 12:30 or so?). I found conditions to be very challenging. And although I tried to follow Doug's lead (getting lift out in the valley) I couldn't replicate what he was getting no matter how hard I tried. Maybe 200' or 300' over for the majority of my flight, unable to grab anything solid, with a pronounced WSW cross down low. I eventually just started to push-way-out in lift, punching out from the ridge, and then doing a tight downwind ellipse to stay in the lift for a bit. That was at the very end of my flight, and finally allowed me to break 800' over. Duh! Doug was doing WAY better than I was, I think he had things figured out in the first 20 minutes.
Cirrus moved in and shut things down, so I landed after maybe 1:15 or so. Then back up top to help the others launch. Matthew was already in the air in his PG, and I watched him head OTB with about 2k over launch. Then, wouldn't you know, the scuz burned off, and with that the winds started to really pick up. We tried to launch Matt twice from the right ramp, but things were just too gnarly. Danny decided to bag it. And then the hang-waiting set in.....
I chased after Matthew and picked him up a couple miles past Rt 30 and Rt 75. He was basically blown there from the school (just OTB) on strong WSW winds.
After waiting for hours, we got Matt into the air, and then Karen shortly after. Both had good launches, and they got to enjoy some late-day boating at probably 800' over the ridge. By that point, the winds were significantly *north* cross. Like, REALLY north! I sure didn't see that coming in any of the forecasts I looked at.
I camped at launch Sunday night, with an in-the-dark scramble to get the rainfly up after I realized that some bad weather was moving in. A bit of thunder & lightning, and a bit of rain, but no problems staying dry. And no 'derecho', thankfully!
MarkC
Re: Pulpit Sunday July 1
Weather.com hourly forecast for Hagerstown had it swinging around to the north (NNW) after 6P. Bacilmarkc wrote:After waiting for hours, we got Matt into the air, and then Karen shortly after. Both had good launches, and they got to enjoy some late-day boating at probably 800' over the ridge. By that point, the winds were significantly *north* cross. Like, REALLY north! I sure didn't see that coming in any of the forecasts I looked at.
MarkC