Crestline Soaring Society

Rebar has high hopes..and Owen as well...Rob says it's switch day. Crestline at noon? Whack!

Sunday 4/13/2008. There was great air for the lucky but not so great for the unlucky today. Some specked out while others got short changed, the goddess of hang gliding was temperamental. Must have been close to 15 HGs sitting on Marshall at one point waiting for the switch and they were finally rewarded with launchable winds coming upslope. The first to do well were Bruce and Rebardan in their ATOS gliders, quickly becoming little dots against the blue. Later Kenny joined them in ruling the sky. Are those things really fair? I looked up the performance and they claim to have a sink rate of 140 fpm and a glide of 19:1, but when these guys fly I wonder if those numbers are reversed. They float like feathers but penetrate like nobodies business. There ought to be a law.