Flying again

John Simon · Post by **John Simon** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 10:14 pm

Finally got in some flying after 3 or 4 weeks of nothing. Weather
co-operated and Heather and I went out to Ridgely. We found Danny B, Steve
K, Linda B, Carlos, Dawson, Marlene and one or two others out there either
flying or setting up. The sky looked very good but the wind was picking up.
We all launched around 2 I guess and just scooted around for about 20-30
minutes with Steve K doing better than most. Gorgeous weather and lots of
birds...
Launched again around 4 and climbed right out to 5000' at 500 fpm ...
Nice!! Cold as snot up there but gorgeous and I had to dive out the side
of one cloud as things got a little wispy in strong lift. I messed around
with my cold weather gear for a minute or two and got my balaclava put
on.... Freezing now I pointed west and went looking for the next good ride.
Found a bunch of zero and a little bubbles here and there, flew with a small
hawk (broad wing??) for a while then dove back to the field finding nothing
very strong and not so surprised as it was getting very overcast and now
about 4:30. I guess I got about 30 mins or so.
Everyone enjoyed the day and had good flights, Carlos doing patterns and
readying for his new ride, Linda B on her sweet new Sport2, Dawson doing
some mid day flying and the rest of us. Heather flew later and had 5 very
nice patterns and is really tightening up her spot landings. A couple
lessons in progress late in the day and a return to the Mid Atlantic by Zach
from Lookout. Cool... Thanks to Windsor for dropping me in another sweet
elevator (she staying up here in the "frozen North" longer than last year
because she's got a heated suit wired into the tug this year!) We had a
very good return to the skies and hoping for more this weekend. Heather is
really making some nice progress.

Regards,

John

-----Original Message-----
From: Scott [mailto:sw@shadepine.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 9:37 PM
To: hg_forum@chgpa.org
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Was it "SPEAK FRENCH, DRINK"...or STOP ARRESTING MARIJUANA SMOKERS"? :

Scott

jimrooney · Post by **jimrooney** » Thu Oct 27, 2005 10:31 pm

The five oh clock soaring club is now the four oh clock club... daylight savings eh?

Glad to hear ya got some good air.
Jim

John Simon · Post by **John Simon** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 12:50 am

Yeah basically... soon it'll be dark at 5 o'clock and that'll make soaring a
bit trickier, so I snuck out early. Hope your having fun down there.

John

-----Original Message-----
From: jimrooney [mailto:jimrooney@gmail.com]
Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2005 10:32 PM
To: hg_forum@chgpa.org
Subject: Flying again

The five oh clock soaring club is now the four oh clock club... daylight
savings eh?

Glad to hear ya got some good air.
Jim

stevek · Post by **stevek** » Fri Oct 28, 2005 10:10 am

Always a shock to me when the weather gets cold. Always have a "Where's all my stuff? " moment. Yesterday I was without gloves. Borrwoed a pair of watersking gloves fom Darrell. Mesh on the top to let the water out ya know. Man it was cold up there. Or rather I was cold up there. Probably wasn't really all that cold by winter standards. Got to 4800 twice. My hands were aching. I was thermaling with one hand in my armpit. Yes. I am that good.