Pulpit Saturday 7/9

[lbunner]

Nice video. What software are you using to edit? Do you have a tracklog of the flight that you can send me?

[krryerson]

It's a free software, ''Movie Makers'' by Microsoft. There's also a link there for free music and you'll find songs you have never heard before. Love it and No copyrights to worry about.

My final 2 -3 second was shitty, during landing; but what you don't see, is a 8 feet corn field ahead. Think this gave me some problems. You might call that wind gradient and more... .

Did not want to go too far in the heat, therefore landed in this field, next to the road.
Probably should have picked another LZ and/or, of course flared earlier.

Yes, I'll be happy to send you the track log.

Noticed on the data, when I dropped several hundred feet, over a minute or two, after passing over the mountain, that's when I had to take a pressures clean leak, 6000 ft MLS. Not bad!

Knut

[krryerson]

I was so fortune to get some feedback's from Bun. He looked at my flight track from Saturday and gave me some great pointers. Here it is with the permission from Bun and this might be educational to all of us.

Thanks Bun for taking the time looking at my flight.

Thanks Knut, I took a look at your flight on SeeYou. It's a great program that allows you to dissect the flight in minute detail. You had two really nice climbs, one over launch and the one that you left to go over the back. In both climbs it appears that you fell out of the thermal on the downwind side. I'd offer that as the lift gets weaker while you are thermaling up, adjust your turns toward the upwind line to get back into the solid lift. Remember that lift just like sink forms in lines or streets aligned with the prevailing wind. If you're losing the lift, fly back upwind to reconnect with the good stuff. In two thermals, the one over launch and the next good one to the left of launch, when you lost the lift you flew perpendicular to the lift line. Again it's best to fly back up the lift line to maximize your chances of reconnecting. Thanks for sharing, I learn alot each time I look at my flights (and others too). I appreciate it.

Bun

Yes, valiant effort. Again, I looked at each turn and you slowly were getting into weaker and weaker lift. The key for me is your last 4 turns were elongated downwind effectively taking you out of the lift band. If you had flown back upwind after any one of those turns, I am confident you would have reconnected and may have worked your way out of there. Regardless, you had a really nice flight. It's always good to look internally on what you could do better the next time. Let this day sink in awhile and pick a few things you'd do different.

Bun

Knut