Crestline Soaring Society - GPS Track

GPS track log program

chriswvv — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:51:21 -0500

John and Dave,
What program are you using to download your GPS tracklogs?
Thanks,
Chris

Marshall, Saturday July 5

Jerome Daoust — Sun, 06 Jul 2008 13:47:36 -0500

Flyable all day from 10:30am to 7pm.
William and others were already soaring above Marshall when I arrived on launch after 11am.
I flew from 11:30am to 12:30, took a long lunch break, then flew from 5 to 7pm: On that late afternoon flight (details) I flew back to Crestline then went back and forth to Pine twice. Max altitude of 6200'.

Marshall, Saturday June 7

Jerome Daoust — Sun, 08 Jun 2008 00:18:33 -0500

Interesting day. It was blowing over the back at Crestline in the morning.

1st flight:
Launched at noon and could see 15 km/h NE wind on my GPS when at 6k (maxed at 6120'). Lift was smooth and visibility towards the desert was clear (see picture), but not a good wind direction for going XC to the East. After an hour, the smog came in and it wasn't as nice.

track

rebardan — Tue, 15 Apr 2008 20:55:17 -0500

sunday's track in a kmz file

apr14-07

rebardan — Sun, 15 Apr 2007 11:28:07 -0500

Marshall to Beaumont - PG

Jerome Daoust — Sun, 09 Jul 2006 01:11:31 -0500

During today's Fly-in, 3 of us went XC towards the Dam.
Mark Kranz reached the Dam.
Bob Barry reached Yucaipa then returned to the Dam. Flight info.

After reaching Yucaipa I went to Beaumont, landing 9 km (5.6 miles) short of the Soboba LZ: Flight details.

Marshall, Sat. 1 July

Ken Howells — Sun, 02 Jul 2006 11:59:26 -0500

Still very hot with high pressure. Strong westerly cycles on Marshall. Decent, workable thermals and then once in a while a boomer. Launched the Falcon 225 at 14:47. Worked ridge and thermal lift in front for a while, then to Cloud and sinking as confusing, tight thermal cores drifted by. At 3200 feet just W of the 750 I hooked one then drifted straight to Marshall and 4800 in about 6 minutes. Did long downwind legs on the 360s to keep up with the drift. Went back to Cloud Peak and worked the standing wave above the little bowl on the west side of the peak until a 700+ FPM core came through that I took to 6100. I was nearly parking at Crestline Ridge and left Billboard from 6100, heading for Pine; hit some serious down just before the ridge and cleared it at 4700. Climbed steadily up the spine and in thermals over the next 10 minutes, getting to 7000 just N of the E/W ridge behind Pine. Made a foray W to the powerlines, but found no lift and meandered back to the front of Pine. Got another one back to 6700, this time joined by 2 topless wings who went farther back, since they had more glide. Another trip W had the same results as before. Went back to Crestline, where there were a couple of other gliders, plust there were gliders going from BB to Pine all the time.

Google Earth 4 beta is available - Higher resolution

Jerome Daoust — Tue, 13 Jun 2006 13:42:22 -0500

From this news page: Google Earth zooms in, June 12, 2006...

Quote:

Google Earth zooms inBy Elinor Mills, CNET News.com
Published on ZDNet News: June 12, 2006, 3:24 PM PT

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--Google unveiled on Monday a new version of its Google Earth application, which features greater coverage and higher resolution, even showing people walking in some locations--detail you get with aerial photography and not usually satellites.

Marshall 1 June, 06

Ken Howells — Thu, 01 Jun 2006 21:30:34 -0500

Rode up with Owen and Mark, planned to top land and drive Owen's truck down. Got to 5200 and Crestline within 15 minutes of launching the Falcon 225 at 14:06, then went towards Pine but sank slowly and ended up at Last Chance. Was near Marshall after 1 hr., but not high enough to top land. Spent the next hour trying to get high enough to shoot an approach, sinking down to above the 750 at one point. Got to 4150 south of the windsock a couple of times, but not quite enough for an approach. Fun but difficult, too warm in light jacket. Finally got 4300 east of the peak and the approach and landing at 15:59 were easy in the smooth air.