. Bueller 
? BacilSacramento Friday September 18th
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Sacramento Friday September 18th
Same as Monday . Bueller ? Bacil
. Bueller ? Bacil
Re: Sacramento Friday September 18th
I am off on Friday and interested in flying at SAC.
Will make my final decision Thursday afternoon.
Might drive up Thursday night, staying at a local hotel overnight.
Right now it’s too early to tell, but are aiming at SAC, Friday.
Knut
Will make my final decision Thursday afternoon.
Might drive up Thursday night, staying at a local hotel overnight.
Right now it’s too early to tell, but are aiming at SAC, Friday.
Knut
Re: Sacramento Friday September 18th
Looking at staying at a motel too overnight Thursday night. Early start on Friday morning looks like the ticket. Bacil
Re: Sacramento Friday September 18th
Staying at a hotel tomorrow night and will fly at SAC on Friday.
Knut
Knut
Re: Sacramento Friday September 18th
We both flew today at SAC and most of the time together.
Landed at Elizabethville, PA. Good launch and landing for both. More to come later... .
Knut
Landed at Elizabethville, PA. Good launch and landing for both. More to come later... .
Knut
Re: Sacramento Friday September 18th
Here's my part. Knut and I arrived at the SAC launch at 8A sharp to moderate to light conditions on launch and low raggedy cumulus clouds moving south at at least 25 knots. We set up and with Joe and Karen's help I launched in a lighter cycle just after 9A and had to work very hard to get up. After multiple passes dolphin flying and turning only in lift, I finally got above the ridge and found cross conditions from the NNE and it wasn't bulletproof. So very active flying was required to stay up. Knut squawked at me on the radio, asking if I was staying up, and I was, between 200' to 400' over launch. So Knut launched after a while, and it looked like he had to work hard too to stay up. So we flew around launch for a good while, while clouds started forming upwind of launch and rolling in. Knut asked on the radio if it was time to go (goal again Carlisle Airport), and I replied not yet. After I climbed up to around 3100' MSL, I was finally ready and we headed west. Saw a big wave cloud over Line Mountain as I headed west. I pretty much glided all the way to the Klingerstown Gap and crossed it kinda low, arriving on the other side just above ridge height. I kept heading west, dolphin flying halfway to Pillow, when I turned around to check on Knut. He was a few miles behind. I stopped and got thrashed about above the lumber magnate's hunting lodge for a while. Knut had passed me and was now jumping the Pillow Gap. I found some lift that got me to around 2400' MSL, drifting all the while towards the Pillow Gap. That gave me plenty of margin to cross easily, as I watched Knut dig himself out of being low on the ridge (200' over?) and climb up to ~ 2800' MSL and drift over the back. I flew as fast as I could over to where he was to hopefully climb the same ladder, but he pulled it up 
. I tried vainly to climb up and follow him, but could only find lift to about 2000' MSL, much too low to hop over the back and make it to Berry Mountain at Elizabethville. So I threw in the towel and landed in a knee high dried up soybean field, next to Rt.225 and Mahantango Creek Road. It was honking coming in, and I literally parachuted down, barely lifting the nose after roundout to reduce the groundspeed to zero. Knut radioed he was going to make Berry Mountain. Soon after Knut called me. He had climbed up to 2800' over Berry Mountain, but threw in the towel too, landing by the high school in Elizabethville along a literal golf course fairway conditioned wide/long grass strip that we had eyeballed on the satellite view the night before (and I had scouted out on the drive up). Knut procured the services of Uber driver Dale, an 80 year old retired guy from Wiconisco, PA, and Dale picked him and I up and drove us back to our cars at launch. We drove in tandem, retrieving my stuff that I stashed in the woods next to the dried up soybean field, then to the library next to the high school in Elizabethville, where Knut had stashed his glider next to the library parking lot. On the drive home, the sky was lit up with pancake clouds, many of them in well established streets. Maybe a later launch would have enabled us to go further, but the chance of the launch blowing out before noon pushed us to launch quite early. But all that really counts is a good takeoff and a good landing, and both of us were 2/2 in those categories. Looking forward to the next attempt. Here is Knut's and my tracks from today's flight. Bacil https://ayvri.com/scene/z15y60z0jx/ckf8 ... 68gyium0zj
. I tried vainly to climb up and follow him, but could only find lift to about 2000' MSL, much too low to hop over the back and make it to Berry Mountain at Elizabethville. So I threw in the towel and landed in a knee high dried up soybean field, next to Rt.225 and Mahantango Creek Road. It was honking coming in, and I literally parachuted down, barely lifting the nose after roundout to reduce the groundspeed to zero. Knut radioed he was going to make Berry Mountain. Soon after Knut called me. He had climbed up to 2800' over Berry Mountain, but threw in the towel too, landing by the high school in Elizabethville along a literal golf course fairway conditioned wide/long grass strip that we had eyeballed on the satellite view the night before (and I had scouted out on the drive up). Knut procured the services of Uber driver Dale, an 80 year old retired guy from Wiconisco, PA, and Dale picked him and I up and drove us back to our cars at launch. We drove in tandem, retrieving my stuff that I stashed in the woods next to the dried up soybean field, then to the library next to the high school in Elizabethville, where Knut had stashed his glider next to the library parking lot. On the drive home, the sky was lit up with pancake clouds, many of them in well established streets. Maybe a later launch would have enabled us to go further, but the chance of the launch blowing out before noon pushed us to launch quite early. But all that really counts is a good takeoff and a good landing, and both of us were 2/2 in those categories. Looking forward to the next attempt. Here is Knut's and my tracks from today's flight. Bacil https://ayvri.com/scene/z15y60z0jx/ckf8 ... 68gyium0zj