It was pretty quiet at Ridgely when we arrived at noon. Brian VH and Felix were there-- and Sammi (sp) and Bertrand... and Soraya Rios from the ECC. She was not flying.
Felix test flew Bertrand's T2C for about an hour and loved it. Brian had a short flight on a Falcon. I got on the flight line at a little after 1pm behind Sammi. She had a sledder. Then the tandem glider called rank and went ahead of me. The tandem broke a weak link and it took a while to sort out a new weak link. I finally towed around 1:30 and also broke a link at 450'. Back to the end of the line. Actually, my wife Karen let my cut in front of her. Bertrand and Sammi towed again. Each having sledder. The cirrus had moved in and things did not look good. Again I arrived at the front of the line only to have the tandem call dibs. And then the tug needed gas. I thought I would never get into the air and it would be a rowdy tow followed by a sledder. The tow was indeed quite rowdy. I pinned off at 2400' and started to work some very light lift. Then it started to get a bit better. I spent most of the time working a lift line to the north of the runway between 3-4K, topping out at 4331' for an hour and five minute flight. Not stellar-- but much better than I had expected. Karen also got up-- but in a completely different lift line to the south of the runway for 45 minutes and 4337'-- six feet higher than me!
A couple of others flew after us having sledders-- Travis and Vasil (sp).
Matthew
An OK Day at Ridgely
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Re: An OK Day at Ridgely
Wow, sounds great! Who has the avalanche with "IFLYHG" as a license plate? I was behind you for a few miles coming back from the beach, and was trying to figure out who you were. I think it was only my second time ever seeing a hang glider on a car "in the wild".