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Staying in the Cores

Many of us had fun Sunday 6-8-08 for a couple of hours over Marshall and Cloud. After we landed Tom Swanson described how he got to 9800 while we were flapping our wings as hard as we could to stay at 4200. Tom talked about really banking up to stay in the tight cores. But I had tried that several times without success, in fact I seemed to do better by using wider circles than I usually do.
A few days ago Ken Howells wrote about working cores. Here’s a quote: “I had to really throw my weight sideways a couple of times to stay in ornery cores, but there were several 800-1000 FPM ones where I banked up steep and just shoved the bar out.”