It was a nice day at Woodstock today. I flew with Steve, Bruce, Adam and John. We were all a bit concerned about choosing Woodstock for today because the winds at launch were very light. Fortunately there were abundant thermals and it was a relatively warm day. Flew for a little over 1.5 hours with max. gain to 2100' over.
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2100 over?! I didn't know that. Pretty sure everybody else was in the 1300 to 1500 range. You da man Kelvin!
Saw several bald eagles . There was an eagle of some sort that flew with me for a couple of minutes. It made a pass right in front of me once that was unbelievably close.-- less than 10 ft. John MacAllister told me on the radio "that bird's all over you". It did not have the white head and tail of a bald but it was clearly an eagle. It was not a hawk-- it was really big.
John and I went north to the point. The day was dying and I had some doubts that we would make it back. At some point on the return trip I started picking out potential LZs and noticed that in many cases the bridges across the river were flooded (must of really poured). Uh oh. Add "accessible by vehicle" to the criteria. John sank out but I managed to hang on.
Topped off the day with a really crappy landing. Tried to make a last second turn into the reported north X and by the time I got the wings level it was too late. Don't know why I do that. It never works. Need a little sign that drops down "Just land straight ahead stupid". sigh. Oh well. Lot of mud flying around but no bent aluminum.
BTW, would have been a good day for PGs.
Saw several bald eagles . There was an eagle of some sort that flew with me for a couple of minutes. It made a pass right in front of me once that was unbelievably close.-- less than 10 ft. John MacAllister told me on the radio "that bird's all over you". It did not have the white head and tail of a bald but it was clearly an eagle. It was not a hawk-- it was really big.
John and I went north to the point. The day was dying and I had some doubts that we would make it back. At some point on the return trip I started picking out potential LZs and noticed that in many cases the bridges across the river were flooded (must of really poured). Uh oh. Add "accessible by vehicle" to the criteria. John sank out but I managed to hang on.
Topped off the day with a really crappy landing. Tried to make a last second turn into the reported north X and by the time I got the wings level it was too late. Don't know why I do that. It never works. Need a little sign that drops down "Just land straight ahead stupid". sigh. Oh well. Lot of mud flying around but no bent aluminum.
BTW, would have been a good day for PGs.