Tony (7H) took off first and flew to Cabot, then over to Dean, then...nowhere. It was another one of those missed photo opportunities. If his crew had remembered to bring a camera, we would have had another picture of a glider on the ground with a fantastic looking sky as the backdrop.
Despite his landout, Tony beat Tim (PM) on the OLC by a couple of kilometers. Tim did a double out-and-return to Cookeville and Mount Moosilauke.
Tom (TH) and Matt (89) flew locally, and Evan (T8) limped home after almost landing out at Twin Mountain (288 km, not bad).
Thomas (ZP) had a nice flight (as usual), made a textbook approach and landing (as usual), and, as usual, refused to publish his flight log. What a spoilsport.
Meanwhile, Christopher made a fuel run, endured a fuel transfer, ran wings, and generally helped out on the ground (Thanks, Christopher!)
4 comments:
The idea of going flying today was Tony's. He gets full credit for watching weather every day and alerting the rest of us.
One correction on the day's report: a 20B pilot may struggle, but he never "limps" :-).
That was a pretty interesting day!
-T8
I was thinking of "slithered," but I settled for "limped."
"Limped" does not really describe entering the pattern with an up wind leg at 239 km/hr (148 mph). "Slithered" might describe it better since his altitude was about 1 meter.
(he did a high speed pass}
Tim
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