the crappy weather kept me home yesterday also, I was suppose to take my wifes
brother home saturday, I tried, but it was just plain crappy weather. FSS
reported unstable air the entire route, 4500 ft ceilings at casa grande, winds
gusting to 31 mph, ice at all altitudes.

I have never seen gliders flying, but then again I dont hang around by the
mountains, I dont like the air bouncing off them.



BTIZ wrote:

Jeff.. the winter winds yesterday kept the glider club on the ground... but
on New Years Day we were wave soaring off the Spring Mountain Range..

see those stacked lennies off Mt Charleston?

such is winter... I just don't like the cold..

BT

"Jeff" wrote in message
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I am ready for winter to be over.
the strong winds aloft are a killer when your ready to get back home.

This morning I flew my wifes brother and his wife back to Casa Grande
Az. from Las Vegas, getting down there was pretty quick, hour and 45
minutes, getting back was 2 hours and 15 minutes. My worst GS was when I
climed to 10.5 to go over a mountain near kingman Az, I thought I was
sucking with my 130 kt GS at 8500 ft, at 10.5 I was getting a
blistering 117 kts!!!!!