Crestline Soaring Society

The proximate cause of the webserver overload seems to have been some kind of fruitless but resource hogging spam bot attack, which I think we've dealt with. A couple of other minor issues, which have been dealt with by the webhost, may have been contributing factors.

I know everyone's post-fly-in enthusiasm may have waned a bit by now, but it would be great to have reports and pictures of that great event.

Saturday was clear, a bit smoggy, not too hot - normal summer day. Inversion rather low and pronounced.

Six of us launched from Crestline within a short period (I launched the UltraSport 166 at 15:03) and soon we were all at Billboard working the one thermal. That was pretty fun. I got to 5700 so I headed for Pine and several followed. We looked all over for lift but there wasn't much, so everyone left. I kept topping out at barely over 5000 so I finally left too. Marshall complex was soarable but it was hard to get good climbs in. Best thermal was 500 FPM in the bowl way out front of Marshall, a tiny core drifting to the NE. I worked in the east bowl for a few minutes and finally flew over the top of Marshall, where I saw the PG pilots waving and pointing to the LZ. I saw the big white "X" out, indicating we had to clear the air for emergency operations. I saw no smoke anywhere. Flew low over a rigid wing at Cloud and yelled that we had to land, then dove for the LZ and spotted the fire truck and glider in the approach area. I did a big left-hand approach around the fire truck and landed between the HG and PG spots with 1:08 airtime. Then they rolled up the X because they were going to take him to the hospital in an ambulance instead of a helicopter. Ugh.