Crestline Soaring Society

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Just a few landings from the day, some bad, some good, a first solo and Brent doing a Sat.

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From 7/19 thru 7/24, I flew 359.3 miles point-to-point in just under 24 total hours, including 228,000' of climbing. Our team, The Epic Spuds placed first and I finished < 1% off 3rd place.

Enjoy! Jonathan

High pressure and low (double) inversion. Launched a Sport 2 155 at 14:50 into weak ridge lift. Crowd scratching below Billboard so I went for Regionals, expecting to get up and go back to Crestline. Was soon scratching above the 750. Finally a good core came through and got me above the lower inversion (~3,300 MSL). Much more relaxing and easier to stay up, but the strong thermals kept slamming into the upper inversion and petering out to nothing between 4,700 and 5,000 MSL. Lots of sink between the good thermals and I tried getting up everywhere, even on the west side of Devil Canyon late in the flight. Landed at 16:50 in a sink cycle.

Hats off to the CSS Gang....your sites are the Best!!!!!
Filled with Great Pilots!!!!!

Vegas Pilots Road Trip to Crestline July 16, 2010

Peace..AdamBomb

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It's a good day when you show up at the LZ on Friday and 2 min. later you have a ride to launch:) Thanks for the ride Kenny.

Aaron 15 with parents consent....Bringum in Dan!
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Enjoyable day at Elsinore. I mean not on the ground. About ten pilots out for the day. It was nice to see Bill hanging around. Everybody got up high. I topped out at 7300. Headed South. Should have gone East, I fell out of the convergence soon. But it was nice taking the courage to leave familiar territory.

Pretty nice flying from Crestline today. I didn’t see anyone getting high or far, but it was possible to get above 6000 and the temperatures where very pleasant in the low 80’s along the ridge.

At launch I noticed Gene has a series of 7 or 8 knots tied in the end of his VG cord. Do you really think he has that many kills?

In the evening our friend Greg Carey was taking time off from RC flying and Crestline weed control to get some PG bunny hill flights off the end of the LZ, and yes, he was having “way too much fun.”

I know...I'm weird??? Whack http://vimeo.com/13363214

I really have difficulty remembering names* but Corey, another PG pilot and their driver were at Kagel late yesterday afternoon. I managed to get in a couple of shots of their PGs in the latter half of the video. It's nice to see more PGs at Sylmar but mid-day Summer turbulence can keep PGs and HGs at bay until evening.

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Enjoy! Jonathan

*My apologies for the brain fart.

Gonna be hotter than S....down the hill....land when it's cool! See you out there, Kenny

I must have gotten lucky Sunday afternoon. Dave launched and immediately gained altitude, heading east with no hesitation. I was off ten minutes later, and found the house thermal active. Crestline Bowl was popping off those little one-turn bubbles keeping me just above the trees. Lift just kept getting better, and I was able to roam from Billboard to House pretty much at will for nearly an hour with no other traffic, like having my own private playground! Even when I didn't pay attention, and found myself low, along would come another thermal and the fun would resume.

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4 of us flew Blackhawk yesterday with varying results. Bruce graciously turned around and landed in Barstow next to Scott, rather than continuing on to Baker, which he had on glide. This allowed us time to to make it back to the fly-in BBQ and introduce our new XC driver to the club and to AJX. My flight was not very far but did give me over 2 hours marginal lift, flatland thermal practice which I am in need of.

Were on! Megret will be attending the LZ side of "Wed Fly Day" but she won't be flying in.....my guess is She's worn out after OUT FLYING all the boys on Monday. See you there! Whack

In this months USHPA mag John Hiney's great interview/story was great. In it was described an unintended loop on launch into a dust devil. I came across this YouTube vid and thought you all would enjoy the thrill!

UNINTENDED LOOP AT TAKEOFF
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crFGsZYM5vk

04 July 10, I turned 58 years young.
I also got my second flight hour with my new-to-me Sensor 610 F3 136.

Such a great B-day. Got a ride to launch from home in Blue Jay with Comet #527, used it for transportation to Andy's, stopping along the way to thermal a bit. Met up with RC Dave and got a ride with Mike Harper back to Crestline with my Sensor.

Good ol' Dave fixed me up with a smaller tailfin, thinkin' maybe it would allow a bit more adverse yaw on turn initiation, which, coupled with the generous anhedral present in this diver, would give me a speedier turn entry. More about this later, maybe, if yer lucky?

Rode to Marshall on the 1:30 McBus while discussing wind speed at Crestline. Dave Aldrich made the call, suppressing the timorousness of youth saying "Let's just go to Marshall, we can get to Crestline from there. Anyone who doesn't get back there in 15 minutes shouldn't be flying."

I tried to launch first but had a gum mishap and while fishing a new piece out of my pocket Dave walked down to launch ahead of me. Six minutes later he was back over the turn out. It took me half an hour to get to Crestline. Let's see...30 divided by 6...that's a skill ratio luck ratio of 5 to 1. Incredible, where's the justice in it?

Bruce landing his Swift at Andy's on 6/27/10

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZCoi4hVBbY

Hot, smoggy, and stable. Just gust cycles at Regionals. Very switchy at the LZ until after 15:00, at least. Good launch of Sport 2 155 from Regionals at 11:48, skimming the foxtails. Some scratching in mini-thermals SE of Cloud, then hanging at the bluffs waiting for a steady cycle. Six glorious minutes.

Cycles a little more frequent at Regionals. Launched a Sport 2 155 at 13:08. Ran extra hard in light cycle. Skimmed the foxtails again and took out the two tall yucca spikes way below launch, hitting one with each wing. Pretty scary seeing that I was going to hit them. Whump! Whump! No direction or pitch change - luckily they were on a line nearly perpendicular to my flight path. Was inclined to fly straight to the LZ and just land; decided to thermal a bit and mellow out. Eight minutes' airtime. A green stain on one LE cleaned right out with Folex.

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