The 1:30 time for Gene on Wed tows no longer shows up. Will plan on calling
Gene Wed morning to let him know we would like tows starting at noon. The
forecast still looks good. There were cumulus today from Mt Siegal going
South.
What does not look good is a cooling trend going into next weekend.
Fly Safe, Brian
On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 8:14 AM Brian S. <bfstvns@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Wednesday still looks pretty good . The point forecast shows soaring
should start getting good about noon. Cumulus do start later in the
afternoon especially to the South.. I will put in a request tonight for a
tow about noon if the forecast holds till this evening. 1:30 is a little
late for a good XC flight. Not sure if the day is good enough to take time
off work but it should be better than yesterday.
Fly Safe, Brian
On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 8:03 PM Omri Kalinsky <omri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
According to the XCSkies GFS and NAM models, both Tue and Wed should be
blue up until you get S of Lake Tahoe. This is for 14:00, but at least the
clouds should be near class A or above. We'll see how it actually pans out.
I didn't ask Gene about Wed actually, he just threw it out there as he said
several people already requested it. He also already put his name on the
towplane schedule for Wed, but it shows up for 13:30, so I don't know if
that's an error or it really is late tows only.
On 8/11/19 7:47 PM, Brian S. wrote:
I will plan on Tues or Wed if the forecast holds. Lets wait till Monday
morning forecast to make the tow pilot request.
On SkySight Cumulus depth seems to be the best prediction of cumulus. It
seems to be a little conservative in its prediction from my experience. I
also only have a few months of experience with SkySight so still learning.
Cumulus cloud base fprecast is helpful also but I normally use the point
forecast tool and check it in several spots when planning a trip to the
South like Mineral Peak, Mt Siegal and Mt Paterson etc.
Fly Safe, Brian
On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 5:41 PM Omri Kalinsky <omri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Gene said he'd tow on Wed. If it's still forecast to be good on Tue,
I'll take a day off and join you. I refilled Oxygen yesterday, it had about
1200 PSI as I left it.
Today turned out pretty crappy (at least for me). I shared one halfway
decent thermal with Jimmy over the field and I left at 7500' thinking there
was better lift ahead under a scraggily cu. I didn't find anything where I
could actually get a positive rate on the averager all the way to the
ground. Ended up landing after about 30 minutes of flight and just derigged
as it was already almost 14:00. Jimmy was still up when I left the field at
15:45, hopefully he at least had a good day.
On 8/11/19 10:51 AM, Brian S. wrote:
Wednesday looks pretty good on SkySight. Light winds with some cumulus
expected in the local area and more to the South. No tow pilot as yet but
we could request one if two or three want to fly.
Hope we have Oxygen also as I also am a little low.
Fly Safe, Brian
On Sun, Aug 11, 2019 at 10:11 AM Brian S. <bfstvns@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
This was pretty typical for summertime wave . There was too much
thermal activity for a weak wave to set up properly. Sometimes late in the
afternoon as thermal activity dies a nice wave can set up and run right
into the evening. I have always wondered what it would be like to be up
there with sunset lenticulars . From the ground they look awesome !!!
On Sat, Aug 10, 2019 at 8:52 PM Omri Kalinsky <omri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
That's indeed what I got today. I think I hit marginal wave once or
twice but it was so patchy and the winds were too southerly so I couldn't
keep it long enough to get well above the clouds and into consistent
laminar wave. Ridges were working nicely though later in the afternoon.
I'm
tied down for the night, so I'll give it a go tomorrow.
https://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-3.0/gliding/flightinfo.html?dsId=7513933
On 8/10/19 7:55 AM, Brian S. wrote:
SkySight is showing weak wave for Saturday and expect some rotor and
broken thermals. I think it the wave will be disorganized.
Sunday the winds calm down but a mediocre blue day expected.
Fly Safe, Brian
On Fri, Aug 9, 2019 at 5:54 PM Omri Kalinsky <omri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
So tomorrow my guess is we should get weak to moderate wave, I'm
seeing 30-35 knot SW winds at 18k throughout the entire region. Not sure
if
it'll blue or lenny wave. The convective lift will only go to the low
teens
in our area, so I don't think the convection will interfere much with the
wave, especially early. Some chance of rain just W of us early around
noon.
The winds will remain throughout the day so with a late landing, a nice
long distance flight is a real possibility.
Sunday looks like a weak thermal day. Probably blue, again lift going
into the low teens. 15 knots or so of SW winds aloft, enough to make the
thermals harder to work but most likely not enough for wave.
I plan on giving it a go both days as usual.
Happy Soaring,
SL aka Omri
On 8/9/19 5:19 PM, David Prather (Redacted sender dwprather68 for
DMARC) wrote:
It looks like we have a front moving through. The RASP and NAM show
high southwest winds in the boundary layer and relatively low max
attainable altitudes.
There is indication from the RASP 500 mb vertical velocity that there
could be wave. What are you all seeing and who is planning to fly this
weekend?
-David
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