Crestline Soaring Society

Jeff O is flying locally this weekend and has a grip of his posters. you know, the awesome one with the autumn leaves. Its a MUST HAVE. I snagged a couple yesterday and you should too!
Cant wait for the OBHG calendar to come out.

Three bags and a stick wing arrived at launch at 12:00. It was blowing straight in 5-10 mph. We could see a big fat haze dome building to the south and the birds were infesting the thermals. I launched first at 12:30 and was quickly followed by the rest of the pilots. Got right up in the corner house thermal. Tracked up and back to 5K msl. Everybody went south about a couple of miles and we got up to 5800' plus. Got bumpy at the inversion. The convergence came and went to the east and we could have followed easily as the south shear and the north shear came through and cloud streets set up on both. Coulda, woulda, shoulda. It was blowing down on launch when I got back there around 1:30. It was nice and smooth at 8-10 mph from the west. I and another bag had nice top landings. (we became driver hero's). One of the pilots had been out here flying during the week and said it was like that all week. Seems like someone turned the switch on for the season.

The folks where the weather station lives changed from cable internet to DSL, and there was a hitch in the transition, so I went up there and found a subnet mask setting to change and got them back on the net.

The power supply to the Ultimeter 2100 weather base unit had gone out, somehow. Made a trip to Radio Shack in Crestline and got a replacement, which got the weather station back up. The anemometer readings still aren't getting to the base station, and it was too damp, cold, and windy to get up on the roof without a spotter.