Toward the end of the day, David Lysy had a nice flight in the Blanik with Evan for an hour and a half, and Moshe showed Rick a few thermalling tricks over the copper mine.
Dennis (DC) and Mark (HG) flew around the neighborhood, while Greg (JD) and Tim (BU) stretched it out a bit with modest cross-country flights. They worked three wavelengths upwind to some nice altitudes (Tim reached the legal limit). The OLC machine didn't give Greg credit for the second half of his flight for some reason. Perhaps it thought he started his engine, or something. [Update: Moshe speculates that his groundspeed got too low, and the algorithm gave him a virtual outlanding. That sound right].
At the end of the day Karl (HK) got his first flight in his new glider and did a great job. He is still sorting out his flight recorder, so there is no flight log for this flight,
On Sunday, it was overcast and not raining for the first half of the day, and overcast and raining for the second half. Henry and Peter took a bunch of instructional flights, Peter went solo, and Keith Merrick, who claims to be back into it, got back into it.
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Greg and Tim did more than "modest cross-country flights". They caught the elusive Post Mills wave and got as high as legally allowed. Tim reached Lake Champlain - and radioed from there that he has 9000 feet above a glide back. And perhaps Greg's OLC track quit counting in the middle of the flight because he "hovered" in the wave with zero groundspeed for a while, leading the OLC analysis to conclude that he landed comfortably on the glass ceiling underlying Class A?
Ah, that must be the explanation. I'll update the story to include the altitudes. Thanks, Moshe.
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