Crestline Soaring Society

Hello Friends
I have a brand new shiny Wills Wing U2 sitting at the Wills factory, and I'm trying to find it a ride up to Bishop. The flying kinda sucks right now, but the skiing at Mammoth is fantastic! If any pilots with a roof rack are heading up this way to take some sledders on the snow and wouldn't mind some extra gas money, please get in contact with me. I promise I won't make any more bad puns.

To members and their families
Have a very Merry Christmas and a safe and Happy New Year. Remember our troops, and those less fortunate than ourselves, and maybe try to reach out a little for them.
PEACE BE ON YE!!!!!
Joel

Interesting weather today. Did not see or hear any HG or PG flying Elsinore today, which was probably a good thing considering the weather progression here today. I took a 1:40 pm 1600 agl tow in a sailplane and flew out to Diamond Valley Lake topping out a bit over 12K over Canyon Lake enroute. Got to go around a couple of microburst rain and lightning cells near Perris airport and over the center of Lake Elsinore. Very cool looking down on the lightning from 10K+ and just a mile or two south of it. Both microbursts were tight and well defined. I have to start bringing a camera more often. Only flew a couple of hours but it was enough to remind me how fortunate we are to be able to experience soaring regardless of what particular wing we are using. I still love HG the best, but on a quick developing day it is nice to have a VNE of 149 kts, and not to have to use the old legs for landing gear. See you in the air, Alan

The attached picture shows what to do when your Catalytic Converter is stolen from your car.

I cut this piece of of tubing from an old cross bar. The fit could not have been any better. Maybe a few 1/1000 of an inch play.

It saved on having to call a tow truck to haul my Tacoma down to Toyota......

Ps. I guess the tube passed the liquidus temp. test.

Cya, Mark

Picked this up off the Cessna 150 list:

Snake on a plane
Friday June 02, 2006

When Monty Coles lifted his small plane into the air for a leisurely
flight over the West Virginia countryside, he didn't know a
blacksnake had stowed away inside the airplane's instrument panel.

"As far as I was concerned, everything was fine," said Coles, a 62-
year-old private pilot from Cross Lanes. "I did a very cautious pre-