Sounds good!
JLHH4
On Tuesday, August 13, 2019, 03:18:48 PM PDT, Brian S. <bfstvns@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Cool, I will request a tow pilot for Thursday 12 noon.
On Tue, Aug 13, 2019, 3:10 PM JAMES HAMILTON <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
I will go out tomorrow and Thursday Brian.
JLHH4
On Tuesday, August 13, 2019, 12:11:17 PM PDT, Brian S. <bfstvns@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Just need one more person for Thursday to request a tow pilot. Any takers ?
On Tue, Aug 13, 2019, 8:02 AM Brian S. <bfstvns@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Change in forecast for Thursday.
Higher peak temperatures expected Thursday and a better soaring forecast.
Thursday may now be the best day and SkySight shows a later developing day with
good soaring till about 6:30 !
What do you think Omri ?
Fly Safe, Brian
On Mon, Aug 12, 2019 at 8:19 PM Brian S. <bfstvns@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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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