Hello, all:
We’re approaching the end of July, which in eastern Nebraska can be some of the hottest and most humid days of the year. Today was tolerable, but we’ve already cancelled flight operations for Sunday. The weather will become cooler soon enough, and we’ll fly when conditions improve.
We only had six club members come out to fly today. Each club member flew once, so we had a total of six sorties today:
- Ryan K. did a flight in the L-23 with Bob A. riding along.
- Steve R. took Paul, a visitor from Sioux Falls for a ride in the L-23. Paul used to be a glider instructor in Hawaii and would like to get back into soaring. He currently flies a King Air medivac, and flew cargo for DHL before that.
- Mark B. flew about a 20 minute flight in ‘The Gadget’.
- Bob A. flew a 30 minute flight in ‘The Gadget’, his first flight in a 1-26.
- Tom S. flew a 20 minute flight in ‘The Gadget’, which was also his first flight in a 1-26.
- Jeff F. flew a 55 minute flight in ‘The Gadget’, which was the hangar flight for the day.
For a hot and humid day, it was okay for soaring. There were lines of fat cumulus clouds passing over, and there was lift under them. The lift wasn’t great, but it was possible to poke around at about 3,700’ MSL, going from cloud to cloud.
In other news, Trevor F. has been doing some research using available satellite tools. He’s trying to identify where there are consistent thermal hot spots on the ground. The theory he’s working on is that there should be thermals near each of the thermal hot spots. Bud S. flew over one of the spots that Trevor feels would be favorable, and Bud said he did find lift over that spot. It’ll be interesting to see where Trevor’s research leads.
That’s all for today’s flight report.
OSCI
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