Been waiting for this one since arriving here in December.Launched about 1:15 into a mostly clear sky with a few thin Q's forming and South winds at 5 to 10. Greg Dinauer was supposed to fly with me but got held up flying his sail plane. I Had thought about a downwind to the North but the sky looked better to the South so decided to try an out and back to Fantasy Of Flight ( a really cool aircraft museum 25 miles to the South). Pinned off at 1500 feet into solid lift at 500 plus on the averager and headed out from 3800 feet. Stayed high and comfortable with CB improving to 4900 as I approached the Seminole sail plane port about 10 miles south where I pimped off numerous sail planes and numerous sail planes pimped off me. At 9 or 10 miles from my goal the sky started to look less friendly and climbs slowed significantly. It was becoming very difficult to make headway against the 8 to 10 knot headwind. I was also getting a bit fatigued after nearly two hours so I decided to run for home. Got a bit low once or twice but always managed to find something when I really needed it and got home with about 1500 feet to spare. Wish I could have reached my goal but still a pretty great day for early Feb. Ended up with 2:42, 4944 and about 30 miles.
Cold front moving in tonight. Probably screw up the flying weather for several days again so it was sure nice getting this one in today.
Come and visit!
Paul
