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Old October 26th 12, 06:24 PM posted to rec.aviation.soaring
Tim Taylor
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Default Nice wave flights in Utah on Saturday

On Oct 22, 2:36*pm, Tim Taylor wrote:
There were several long wave flights in Utah on Saturday. *Dan Wrobel
posted a flight of more than 700K in a Ventus B 16.6 to OLC and York
Zentner flew over 1000K in LM (ASG-29) but appears to have had a
logger failure. *His spot trace will be around for a few days:

http://share.findmespot.com/shared/f...glId=0FPA73k7m....

Congratulations to both for an impressive flight and pushing the
boundary's of the wave in northern Utah. *It looks like FAI three
point flights of over 1000K are possible and OLC of 1500K. *The
Southern end of the flights was south of Provo and northern end was
about 30 miles north of Logan.


The flight logs from York's flight were downloaded later this week.

From Lynn Alley:

"By the OLC rules, the flight was 754 miles (1214 km) at an average
speed
of 85.6 mph. By FAI rules it was 581.1 miles (935 km) at 92.1 mph."