Forecast for south central PA tomorrow is SE@10, sun
early, clouding up by late afternoon.
That's a pretty good 'cast for Jack's, assuming an ETA
by noon or so. Anyone thinking that the drive is worthwhile?
--mark
Sat19Feb Plans : Jack's ?
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Paul Tjaden
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Sat19Feb Plans : Jack's ?
I hope you guys get to go! I dug these notes out of my files for any pilots who are lucky enough to go to Jack's
Lauren
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Jack’s LZ Rules
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1) We will break down on the dirt road or on the grass just off the main
road. Not in the fields.
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2) We will never drive on the dirt road. We will carry our gliders and
equipment to our vehicles parked along the main road.
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He said if we follow those rules, we can use his land as our LZ and no
payments would be necessary at this time. In addition, try to conceal any alcoholic
beverages and cleanup any litter even if it isn't yours. When I was walking
near his fields, I found an empty beer bottle. I'm sure it was thrown from a
passing car but the farmer might think that a pilot left it.
Lauren
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Jack’s LZ Rules
?
1) We will break down on the dirt road or on the grass just off the main
road. Not in the fields.
?
2) We will never drive on the dirt road. We will carry our gliders and
equipment to our vehicles parked along the main road.
?
He said if we follow those rules, we can use his land as our LZ and no
payments would be necessary at this time. In addition, try to conceal any alcoholic
beverages and cleanup any litter even if it isn't yours. When I was walking
near his fields, I found an empty beer bottle. I'm sure it was thrown from a
passing car but the farmer might think that a pilot left it.
Flyin' Saturday
Gotta a kayaking gig from 10am to noonish at the Tuckahoe Creek on Sat morning. Heading over to Highland afterwards to say hi and hopefully fly. FYI-- Highland opened a couple of weeks ago. Except nobody told the weatherman.
Matthew
Matthew
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Danny Brotto
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Jack's Saturday...
Agree, Jack's is looking promising. SE @ 10 w/ rain in the evening. Will confirm in the AM.
Danny Brotto
Danny Brotto
Sat19Feb Plans : Jack's ?
I'm going, getting there early. Opening day, yee haa!
Dan T.
Dan T.
jack's Sat;y
DanT & I are leaving Alexandria 7:45 for Jacks
cell phone 703-772-6660
cragin
cell phone 703-772-6660
cragin
Sat19Feb Plans : Jack's ?
I'll be at Highland after noon. - Hugh
On 18 Mar 2005, at 22:42, Matthew wrote:
> Gotta a kayaking gig from 10am to noonish at the Tuckahoe Creek on Sat
> morning. Heading over to Highland afterwards to say hi and hopefully
> fly. FYI-- Highland opened a couple of weeks ago. Except nobody told
> the weatherman.
>
> Matthew
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>
>
On 18 Mar 2005, at 22:42, Matthew wrote:
> Gotta a kayaking gig from 10am to noonish at the Tuckahoe Creek on Sat
> morning. Heading over to Highland afterwards to say hi and hopefully
> fly. FYI-- Highland opened a couple of weeks ago. Except nobody told
> the weatherman.
>
> Matthew
>
>
>
>
>
Jacks was good to us. Conditions started out a bit marginal but they evenetually improved.
I flew and soared three times in two different wings ... twice on the PG and an evening glass-off flight on the big Falcon. My favorite was the second PG flight during the best conditions of the day. I got about 800' over launch in big fat lift.
When I arrived, I had planned to work on improving the PG launch below the guardrail. I was pretty ticked off when I saw that someone had dumped a tree there and it was blocking the spot I normally lay out the canopy.
With the help of Mark and Cragin on the 1st time, and Danny and Linda on the second, I was able to reverse-inflate the PG from the parking area, step over the guardrail and launch. I learned that it takes at least a 10mph wind to get the wing up from back there.
I had a helmet cam on for all three flights ... I'm looking forward to reviewing the results.
'Spark
I flew and soared three times in two different wings ... twice on the PG and an evening glass-off flight on the big Falcon. My favorite was the second PG flight during the best conditions of the day. I got about 800' over launch in big fat lift.
When I arrived, I had planned to work on improving the PG launch below the guardrail. I was pretty ticked off when I saw that someone had dumped a tree there and it was blocking the spot I normally lay out the canopy.
With the help of Mark and Cragin on the 1st time, and Danny and Linda on the second, I was able to reverse-inflate the PG from the parking area, step over the guardrail and launch. I learned that it takes at least a 10mph wind to get the wing up from back there.
I had a helmet cam on for all three flights ... I'm looking forward to reviewing the results.
'Spark
'Spark
Yeah, it turned out to be worth the drive!
Good crowd: Dan, Craig, Spark, Linda, Danny, Daniel,
Mark Dunn, Spoons, Rich Bloomfield, myself.
Conditions initially sunny and promising, but with shuttles
and such, wasn't until about 1:30 that I was back up top
and ready to go. And of course, the cirrus had moved in
by then. So I resigned myself to a sled, and that's pretty
much what I got, though with a thermal down low that
was workable for 100' or so. Dan T had a nice extendo.
Pretty soon the first wave was complete, and we were
heading back up top with 5 pilots and 3 gliders crammed
into Craig's truck.
Conditions in the LZ had been picking up during breakdown,
so I had hopes that we might have enough wind for
some ridge soaring, if not booming thermals. And that's exactly
what happened : I launched 4th in the second wave and was
immediately 200' over, heading nouth . Went past the power
lines but didn't punch all the way to the gap : the winds were
cross and the air was a bit turbulent down low. 450' over was
the best I could do.
Headed back to launch and then went south, until I ran out
of LZs. Had fun burning back to launch, zooming along Jack's
Mtn road and then strafing launch
Put it down in the LZ
after maybe 1:20 of airtime.
Was really cool watching 'Spark launch his PG from the
overlook area, he made a technical launch look easy.
--mark
Good crowd: Dan, Craig, Spark, Linda, Danny, Daniel,
Mark Dunn, Spoons, Rich Bloomfield, myself.
Conditions initially sunny and promising, but with shuttles
and such, wasn't until about 1:30 that I was back up top
and ready to go. And of course, the cirrus had moved in
by then. So I resigned myself to a sled, and that's pretty
much what I got, though with a thermal down low that
was workable for 100' or so. Dan T had a nice extendo.
Pretty soon the first wave was complete, and we were
heading back up top with 5 pilots and 3 gliders crammed
into Craig's truck.
Conditions in the LZ had been picking up during breakdown,
so I had hopes that we might have enough wind for
some ridge soaring, if not booming thermals. And that's exactly
what happened : I launched 4th in the second wave and was
immediately 200' over, heading nouth . Went past the power
lines but didn't punch all the way to the gap : the winds were
cross and the air was a bit turbulent down low. 450' over was
the best I could do.
Headed back to launch and then went south, until I ran out
of LZs. Had fun burning back to launch, zooming along Jack's
Mtn road and then strafing launch
Put it down in the LZafter maybe 1:20 of airtime.
Was really cool watching 'Spark launch his PG from the
overlook area, he made a technical launch look easy.
--mark