The forecasts are still looking good on both the RASP and SkySight for
Wed. Bob Larkin is signed up to tow.
I am sending an email to the tow pilots asking if Red Tow would be
available for Wednesday.
Nice flight Saturday Omri. It was hard to find your flight on the OLC page
not sure why.
Asher is another pilot that might like to fly. Is on our group email ?
Fly Safe, Brian
On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 10:48 PM JAMES HAMILTON <dmarc-noreply@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
John Scott is not the one wanting to do the test flight on Red Tow, it's
the Chief Tow Pilot, Tim Tobin, who is on vacation and has told the other
tow pilots not to fly Red Tow until he gets back and does the test flight.
I don't know when Tim will be back.
If you can confirm that a tow plane will be available for Wednesday I will
go out and fly.
JLH
H4
On Sunday, August 25, 2019, 10:07:50 PM PDT, Brian S. <bfstvns@xxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
Tow request made for Wed 11:00 am . Lets watch and see what happens.
Fly Safe, Brian
On Sun, Aug 25, 2019 at 9:43 PM Omri Kalinsky <omri@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:
XCSkies agrees. Tue looks decent and Wed looks even better. Both days
are showing cu over the Sierras by 11:00, and even fairly high at
14k-15k. It will just be a matter of braving the first 20 miles of blue
to get there. I am seeing some late afternoon showers in the forecast
for Wed here and there, but it looks manageable, probably just some
small pockets of rain you could fly around. Thu looks a bit on the windy
side to me too. Sure Brian, I'll fly with you Wed (assuming the towplane
is back up).
Although Prather and I were wrong to worry about the smoke from the
Petersen Mtn. fire today, apparently we weren't wrong to derig with blue
crapping out again. So far, it doesn't look like anybody flew in Truckee
or Minden either. BTW, I finally posted my flight from yesterday on OLC.
Thoughts and prayers for a quick recovery for the blue towplane :-)
Omri
On 8/25/19 12:32 PM, Brian S. wrote:
It looks like mid week for the tropical air mass to reach us. Both
SkySight and the RASP show Tuesday, Wed and Thursday to be pretty
good. Tuesday it looks like light winds and most Cumulus over the
Sierras. Wed may be the best day. Thursday it may get a little on the
Windy side.
What do you see on XC skies Omri ?
If any one wants to fly Wednesday let me know so we can get the tow
pilot request put in.
Tuesday looks to be the second best day to me if we can just get to
the Verdi ridge.
Fly Safe,Brian
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