Kemp wrote:

Today Gordon Boettger flew his Kestrel on a 3TP flight of about 1800km
out of Minden, Nevada. A sunrise takeoff lead to the first turn near
Chilcoot, then South to near Inyokern, back North to Susanville, then
down to Palmdale. This flight handily beats my flight of last year on
a similar route. Gordon had clearances to 23,000 and sometimes 28,000
feet and was mostly screaming along. Ah, just another day in the
Sierra Nevada wave.....

Several years ago, when I was in Minden for some wave flying, a local
glider pilot looked up at the lennies and said scornfully, "Another
parade day!". Of course, he was just thinking of pilots zipping back and
forth inside the "wave window" and not going beyond it's limited
extents. I'm sure he knows better now!

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Eric Greenwell
Washington State
USA