Great flying in FL. I flew yesterday for over an hour; that was nothing. Today I flew more than 2 hours. Flew 12 miles towards Wallaby and 12 back, flew a couple of other shorter out and backs. (This morning I drove to the airport to get my phone from the car -- I forgot it there and Paul took the car to the airport ) Had great fun flying with Mitch. He was doing wingovers at cloudbase (on purpose -- mine were all by accident) so I stayed away from him. When he started behaving we thermaled together in this little rocket going up at 500 fpm.
Turns out he and Steven (English chap) flew all the way to Wallaby and back. I stayed to the edge of the streets and still got sucked up once. Scary. Kept my eyes plastered on the ground and flew very fast, but the clouds kept building around me. Finally ended up WAY off course to get the heck away from the clouds. You could fly and not turn -- until you hit the vicious sink in the blue holes.
I flew with vultures a few feet away, a Golden Eagle, and a whole flock of Sandhill Cranes.
Sorry, this message isn't totally readable! Gotta get my stuff charged up. Tomorrow is a repeat and TUESDAY is SE at 12!!! This means a downwind day -- haven't done THAT for awhile.
Lauren
Friggin' Epic!
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