Good Lift at Marfa February 22

[Snead1]

Today, Sunday February 22, soaring conditions were very good in Marfa Texas.
Cloud base was about 13,500. Thermals varied in strength, but I make a few
turns at over 7 knots. Wind was about 15 mph out of the south. I did not find
any wave.

Bill Snead
6W

[Mhudson126]

Cloud base 15,000 here in Moriarty! No wave either, but 6 kts average. Gotta
love Febuary out west!
-Mitch

[BTIZ]

the Las Vegas Valley is suffering from SoCal rain syndrome...

BT

"Mhudson126" > wrote in message
...
> Cloud base 15,000 here in Moriarty! No wave either, but 6 kts average.
Gotta
> love Febuary out west!
> -Mitch

[Chris]

Dang! I scheduled the Grob for Saturday but "chickened out" due to
snowfall. I should have rescheduled for Sunday. Well, let's see how next
weekend is going.

Chris


Mhudson126 wrote:
> Cloud base 15,000 here in Moriarty! No wave either, but 6 kts average. Gotta
> love Febuary out west!
> -Mitch

[Tony Smolder]

At Turf in Arizona we flew over 300K on 2/21 (216 miles at 60 mph).
Yes got to love it out west!

TS1
>
> "Mhudson126" > wrote in message
> ...
> > Cloud base 15,000 here in Moriarty! No wave either, but 6 kts average.
> Gotta
> > love Febuary out west!
> > -Mitch

[Greg Arnold]

Tony Smolder wrote:

> At Turf in Arizona we flew over 300K on 2/21 (216 miles at 60 mph).
> Yes got to love it out west!
>
> TS1

Why aren't you guys entering your flights in the Aerokurier Online Contest?

[Michael]

We would appreciate to see your logger file on the USA page of
www.onlinecontest.org.

Or try this direct link:
http://www.onlinecontest.org/olcphp/2004/ausw_wertung.php?olc=olc-usa&spr=en&dclp=aab0993d52015d67e50efa7a63fb1636

Thanks to show me something from Texas

Michael


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> Today, Sunday February 22, soaring conditions were very good in Marfa Texas.
> Cloud base was about 13,500. Thermals varied in strength, but I make a few
> turns at over 7 knots. Wind was about 15 mph out of the south. I did not find
> any wave.
>
> Bill Snead
> 6W

[Kirk Stant]

Greg Arnold > wrote in message news:<sEA_b.1096$506.1017@fed1read05>...
>
> Why aren't you guys entering your flights in the Aerokurier Online Contest?

Good question, Greg. I flew with Tony last Saturday, unfortunately
due to time constaints (had to go to a Mardi Gras party!) I had to
land early, so could only get off a 128 mile task at 62 mph - chasing
Tony most of the way. Lovely Cu's everywhere, although cloudbases
were a bit low for the desert - at Saturday's cruising altitudes
(about 4000 to 6000 ft) we are usually thinking about finding a place
to land!

We have a real busy race schedule out here, and anytime Tony is flying
it's a race, so no-one has really thought much about the OLC. Last
week I briefly looked it up, but when I saw what appeared to be a lot
of rules about what the flight had to be, I lost interest. I suspect
I was hasty in making that opinion, so I'm going to revisit it.

Any suggestions or comments about the OLC?

Kirk
66

[Greg Arnold]

Kirk:

It takes a bit of time to figure out at first, and the webpage is rather
confusing. Once you figure it out, however, it only takes a minute or
two to upload each flight. If I can figure it out, so can you!

Doug Levy (the 2003 US champion) wrote an article about the contest on
page 8 of the January /February issue of Southern California Soaring:
http://socalsoaring.com/newsletter/scs_6_janfeb2004.pdf


Kirk Stant wrote:

> Greg Arnold > wrote in message news:<sEA_b.1096$506.1017@fed1read05>...
>
>>Why aren't you guys entering your flights in the Aerokurier Online Contest?
>
>
> Good question, Greg. I flew with Tony last Saturday, unfortunately
> due to time constaints (had to go to a Mardi Gras party!) I had to
> land early, so could only get off a 128 mile task at 62 mph - chasing
> Tony most of the way. Lovely Cu's everywhere, although cloudbases
> were a bit low for the desert - at Saturday's cruising altitudes
> (about 4000 to 6000 ft) we are usually thinking about finding a place
> to land!
>
> We have a real busy race schedule out here, and anytime Tony is flying
> it's a race, so no-one has really thought much about the OLC. Last
> week I briefly looked it up, but when I saw what appeared to be a lot
> of rules about what the flight had to be, I lost interest. I suspect
> I was hasty in making that opinion, so I'm going to revisit it.
>
> Any suggestions or comments about the OLC?
>
> Kirk
> 66

[Paul]

Its easy to submit flights once you are registered .
If you using either Strepla or Seeyou you just us the optimise function
under the edit menu.
Enter your details and the glider you where flying. Select OLC United
States. Send flight in.
Done.
It will show up almost instantly.

"Greg Arnold" > wrote in message
news:qlK_b.9603$aZ3.188@fed1read04...
> Kirk:
>
> It takes a bit of time to figure out at first, and the webpage is rather
> confusing. Once you figure it out, however, it only takes a minute or
> two to upload each flight. If I can figure it out, so can you!
>
> Doug Levy (the 2003 US champion) wrote an article about the contest on
> page 8 of the January /February issue of Southern California Soaring:
> http://socalsoaring.com/newsletter/scs_6_janfeb2004.pdf
>
>
> Kirk Stant wrote:
>
> > Greg Arnold > wrote in message
news:<sEA_b.1096$506.1017@fed1read05>...
> >
> >>Why aren't you guys entering your flights in the Aerokurier Online
Contest?
> >
> >
> > Good question, Greg. I flew with Tony last Saturday, unfortunately
> > due to time constaints (had to go to a Mardi Gras party!) I had to
> > land early, so could only get off a 128 mile task at 62 mph - chasing
> > Tony most of the way. Lovely Cu's everywhere, although cloudbases
> > were a bit low for the desert - at Saturday's cruising altitudes
> > (about 4000 to 6000 ft) we are usually thinking about finding a place
> > to land!
> >
> > We have a real busy race schedule out here, and anytime Tony is flying
> > it's a race, so no-one has really thought much about the OLC. Last
> > week I briefly looked it up, but when I saw what appeared to be a lot
> > of rules about what the flight had to be, I lost interest. I suspect
> > I was hasty in making that opinion, so I'm going to revisit it.
> >
> > Any suggestions or comments about the OLC?
> >
> > Kirk
> > 66
>
>

[Chris OCallaghan]

Tony,

I see by the OLC that Baude Litt did slightly over 300 miles at 50+
miles per hour from Gettysburg, PA on Sunday, braving very soggy, snow
covered fields. Are you guys having a soft spring out west?

Cheers,

OC

[ZASoars]

2 Knots to 3000msl here in Central Indiana on Sunday 2/22 . A whole 40 minutes
in the club Grob !
ZA.

[Bob Gibbons]

On 24 Feb 2004 06:37:32 -0800, (Kirk Stant)
wrote:

.... text deleted ...
>
> Last
>week I briefly looked it up, but when I saw what appeared to be a lot
>of rules about what the flight had to be, I lost interest. I suspect
>I was hasty in making that opinion, so I'm going to revisit it.
>
>Any suggestions or comments about the OLC?
>
>Kirk
>66

There are really no rules at all. Just load your igc file into SeeYou,
hit the optimize button, then hit the upload button. SeeYou handles
all the rules, chooses the turnpoints, and uploads the file. Could not
be simplier, takes about 60 seconds. I believe Strepla has the same
capability.

I encourage all pilots to upload your flights, both good and bad.
Share your local conditions with the rest of the world. We can all
learn from others.

Bob

[Mhudson126]

Was looking forward to submiting my flight to OLC...Got home and down-loaded it
and fell victim to Kame-bridge logger outage. It's on it's way to them now to
figure out what's wrong.
-Mitch