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The 7th picture looks familiar, sort of.
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- Thu Mar 02, 2023 9:44 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Not Flying, but Interesting
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5955
- Fri Jun 10, 2022 7:18 am
- Forum: Comp Discussion
- Topic: Arizona Comp
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5820
Arizona Comp
It looks like the Santa Cruz Flats Race (hang gliding competition in Casa Grande, AZ) is ON again this year. I'm going.
https://civlcomps.org/event/santa-cruz-flats-race-2022
https://civlcomps.org/event/santa-cruz-flats-race-2022
- Thu Dec 23, 2021 12:04 am
- Forum: Safety and Incidents in flight
- Topic: Near midair-collision over Kagel ridge on Sunday 12/19/2021
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8897
Re: Near midair-collision over Kagel ridge on Sunday 12/19/2021
I think that Pilot B was in your blind spot until just before the encounter. The blind spot is definitely an issue. If you're banked up in thermal, you will have a blind spot. It looks like you cleared the area that was going to become your blind spot before you banked up and created it. After that,...
- Mon Nov 08, 2021 6:09 pm
- Forum: Flight Discussion
- Topic: Saturday 10/2/21
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5176
- Sat Oct 30, 2021 8:42 am
- Forum: Flight Discussion
- Topic: Over the Back
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8334
- Sun Oct 03, 2021 8:38 am
- Forum: Flight Discussion
- Topic: Saturday 10/2/21
- Replies: 1
- Views: 5176
Saturday 10/2/21
There were some interesting flights on Saturday. A track of mine is at
https://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-3.0/p ... 1188591556
https://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-3.0/p ... 1188591556
- Fri Oct 01, 2021 6:24 pm
- Forum: Safety and Incidents in flight
- Topic: Saturday's close call
- Replies: 2
- Views: 6046
Re: Saturday's close call
Yikes! Good job dodging that one. And Vrezh, good job on the call. I'll be upping my effort to scan the horizon, and flying with a radio.
- Wed Sep 08, 2021 10:03 pm
- Forum: Flying Related
- Topic: Toto, I don't think we're in Sylmar anymore
- Replies: 4
- Views: 5699
Re: Toto, I don't think we're in Sylmar anymore
Nice landing
- Mon Aug 30, 2021 7:29 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Oh No!
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6568
- Tue Apr 27, 2021 9:20 am
- Forum: Flight Discussion
- Topic: Over the Back
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8334
Re: Over the Back
Thanks everyone. The Baker airport has a sock and it was hanging straight down when I flew over. I didn't really want to land there because the runway is narrow and oriented North South and I was still thinking about the West wind I had seen the whole flight. I couldn't tell from the air whether the...
- Fri Apr 23, 2021 7:23 am
- Forum: Flight Discussion
- Topic: Over the Back
- Replies: 9
- Views: 8334
Over the Back
The forecast for Monday 4/19/21 looked good enough to ditch work over, so that’s what I did. I didn’t find anyone else interested in flying, so I drove my own car up. By the way, the road is great. I hadn’t seen it in a long time. I got off the hill a little before 1:00 because the forecast was for ...
- Thu Jul 16, 2020 6:44 pm
- Forum: Flight Discussion
- Topic: New Mexico
- Replies: 0
- Views: 6247
New Mexico
I’ve been spending a lot of time in the Las Cruces area for work. I’ve been driving to get here, so bringing my glider of course. The flying here is great. Local pilot, Robin Hastings is kind of the last of the active pilots in the area. He’s a super nice guy with a wealth of local knowledge and a r...
- Sun Jul 12, 2020 5:34 pm
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Covid 19
- Replies: 1
- Views: 1913
Re: Covid 19
Thanks for posting, Rob. If everyone could just avoid infecting each other for a couple of weeks, this shit would be over.
- Tue Jun 16, 2020 7:39 pm
- Forum: Flight Discussion
- Topic: Tuesday
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7097
Re: Tuesday
No, only 6 times, 7 if you count the time I came up short, but walked the rest of the way. Maybe 17 is a typo? If it makes you feel better, I’ve sunk out at Big T more than 100 times.
- Sat Jun 13, 2020 10:35 pm
- Forum: Events
- Topic: Let's fly Mingus!
- Replies: 3
- Views: 6281
Re: Let's fly Mingus!
Yes, more discussion would be nice.
- Wed Jun 10, 2020 8:58 pm
- Forum: Flight Discussion
- Topic: Tuesday
- Replies: 5
- Views: 7097
Tuesday
I ditched work on Tuesday because the forecast looked really good. The actual conditions turned out to be good enough to fly to Crestline. There's a track log of my flight at
https://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-3.0/p ... 1590737797
https://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-3.0/p ... 1590737797
- Sat Apr 04, 2020 7:37 am
- Forum: General Discussion
- Topic: Corona flying
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2532
Re: Corona flying
I'm not committing to not flying yet, but I passed on last weekend and this weekend. I plan to continue hiking up the hill anyway.
We're okay so far too, but we also know people who aren't.
Thanks for trying to keep this forum going.
We're okay so far too, but we also know people who aren't.
Thanks for trying to keep this forum going.
- Thu Mar 26, 2020 4:31 pm
- Forum: Flight Discussion
- Topic: Check out this PG flight from Wednesday
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6687
Re: Check out this PG flight from Wednesday
Santa Barbara
- Sun Mar 22, 2020 6:20 pm
- Forum: Flight Discussion
- Topic: Check out this PG flight from Wednesday
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6687
Re: Check out this PG flight from Wednesday
I think it's more like 77 miles into the flight, but still a long way.
- Sun Mar 22, 2020 2:20 pm
- Forum: Flight Discussion
- Topic: Check out this PG flight from Wednesday
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6687