wrote:
On Aug 28, 8:31 am, "kirk.stant" wrote:
Ahh yes, the pleasures of a sports canopy (open cockpit, to those not
familiar with the breed) 1-26 on a warm summer afternoon, coring a
corn husk - marked thermal, chilling out at cloud base - then barely
making it back to the field after drifting downwind....

Drag, I spit in your face!

thats the problem with trying to get back to the airport Kirk. I had
one exciting flight like that. Was out thermalling matt michael in
his lark and eventually noticed i was about 4 miles downwind at 4 or
5000 feet. yikes! turn into the wind and it was like the world just
stopped moving. made it back though.

Hear hear. Same thing happened to me, except I was more like 3 miles
downwind at 2000 feet. I did just barely make it back.

Next time that happened I said "screw it" and ended up landing 30 miles
away.

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Michael Ash
Rogue Amoeba Software