The forecast for Friday showed possiblities of wave (Rick and Kevin concured). Sure enough Friday afternoon had wind blowing 45-50 kts straight from Sugarbush and lenticulars were all around. Christopher help me set up the 304 and Andy took off work to give me a 7000' tow (Christopher told me "not to get off early") to the north west at 4:00. Andy placed me just under the leading edge of the cloud shown in the first picture. From there it was 1-3 kts up, up to just short of 13,ooo. I poke along with a ground speed of 0-10 kts all the way up to Spruce Mountain. I don't think I turned more than 45 degrees from takeoff until I got to Spruce Mountain. The cloud I was following ended at Spruce Mountain so I turned around. The return trip was probably 110 kts over the ground. By 5:30 there were still nice looking lenticulars but they were all to far away and I had a nice long ride down to land at 6:00. Christopher waited around to help me disassemble. Thanks to Christopher, Andy, Rick, and Kevin for the great flight.
We should make every Friday "Wave Friday".
The pictures are Christopher's.
Tim
Awesome cloud day!
ReplyDelete1st photo is looking N to NNE
it stayed there the whole time until just before Tim got back- and dissappeard in 10 to 15 minutes - Gone
2nd photo looking right edown the runways - NE multi layer 'lenticular'
last photo down the runways -
SW to SSW - it sat there all afternooon too - biggest lenticualr I've ever seen-
Only a few cloud banks actually moved past - wind was perfect cross - NW
Tony was up in Sugarbsuh and saw the same things -
What a day ~ I have more photos - so glad they came out as good as this on the blog - I was just about to send these out club- wide in email-Thanks Tim ~Christopher