Iowa XC at end of October

Yesterday Matt Michael, in his Woodstock, and I, in the Cherokee, set
out downwind from Ames municipal on a pretty nice soaring day,
especially considering the time of year! we were greeted with about
300 fpm thermals, sometimes stronger, but with wide spacing. Often we
had nearly 10 mile runs between them. I ended up pushing too hard
instead of backtracking to matt who was in lift, and landed out in a
nice harveste soybean field. What a wonderful time of the year to
fly, when the landscape is littered with perfect runways in all
directions. Matt flew around for about another hour but was kind
enough to join me in the field. what a wonderful flight! pictures
are here, currently uploading so check back again:
http://picasaweb.google.com/cherokee...OctoberSoaring


More to come...

Tony Condon

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Yesterday Matt Michael, in his Woodstock, and I, in the Cherokee, set
out downwind from Ames municipal on a pretty nice soaring day,
especially considering the time of year! we were greeted with about
300 fpm thermals, sometimes stronger, but with wide spacing. Often we
had nearly 10 mile runs between them. I ended up pushing too hard
instead of backtracking to matt who was in lift, and landed out in a
nice harveste soybean field. What a wonderful time of the year to
fly, when the landscape is littered with perfect runways in all
directions. Matt flew around for about another hour but was kind
enough to join me in the field. what a wonderful flight! pictures
are here, currently uploading so check back again:
http://picasaweb.google.com/cherokee...OctoberSoaring

You guys are an inspiration, this is what soaring should be all about 8^)

Marc

So how far did you guys fly?

Mike Schumann

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Yesterday Matt Michael, in his Woodstock, and I, in the Cherokee, set
out downwind from Ames municipal on a pretty nice soaring day,
especially considering the time of year! we were greeted with about
300 fpm thermals, sometimes stronger, but with wide spacing. Often we
had nearly 10 mile runs between them. I ended up pushing too hard
instead of backtracking to matt who was in lift, and landed out in a
nice harveste soybean field. What a wonderful time of the year to
fly, when the landscape is littered with perfect runways in all
directions. Matt flew around for about another hour but was kind
enough to join me in the field. what a wonderful flight! pictures
are here, currently uploading so check back again:
http://picasaweb.google.com/cherokee...OctoberSoaring


More to come...

Tony Condon




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Mike Schumann wrote:
So how far did you guys fly?

Does it really matter if they were having a good time?

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Yesterday Matt Michael, in his Woodstock, and I, in the Cherokee, set
out downwind from Ames municipal on a pretty nice soaring day,
especially considering the time of year! we were greeted with about
300 fpm thermals, sometimes stronger, but with wide spacing. Often we
had nearly 10 mile runs between them. I ended up pushing too hard
instead of backtracking to matt who was in lift, and landed out in a
nice harveste soybean field. What a wonderful time of the year to
fly, when the landscape is littered with perfect runways in all
directions. Matt flew around for about another hour but was kind
enough to join me in the field. what a wonderful flight! pictures
are here, currently uploading so check back again:
http://picasaweb.google.com/cherokee...OctoberSoaring


More to come...

Tony Condon

On Oct 29, 4:07 pm, "Mike Schumann" mike-nos...@traditions-
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So how far did you guys fly?

Mike Schumann

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Yesterday Matt Michael, in his Woodstock, and I, in the Cherokee, set
out downwind from Ames municipal on a pretty nice soaring day,
especially considering the time of year! we were greeted with about
300 fpm thermals, sometimes stronger, but with wide spacing. Often we
had nearly 10 mile runs between them. I ended up pushing too hard
instead of backtracking to matt who was in lift, and landed out in a
nice harveste soybean field. What a wonderful time of the year to
fly, when the landscape is littered with perfect runways in all
directions. Matt flew around for about another hour but was kind
enough to join me in the field. what a wonderful flight! pictures
are here, currently uploading so check back again:
http://picasaweb.google.com/cherokee...OctoberSoaring

More to come...

Tony Condon

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I landed in the field about 42 nautical miles from Ames. Matt easily
couldve gone much further with the altitude he had, plus the day was
still working at that time. sure was nice to have some company though!

On Oct 29, 3:55 pm, Marc Ramsey wrote:
Mike Schumann wrote:
So how far did you guys fly?

Does it really matter if they were having a good time?


Sometimes it does matter, sometimes it doesn't so much. The main
thing is landing out, thats what really makes it a fun adventure.
Meeting all the locals is great too.

We landed about 50sm from our home airport which actually was pretty
far considering the conditions. First, it's freeking October 28th in
the upper midwest where thermals sometimes compete with blizzards and
the day length is pretty brief. Second, Tony didn't launch until
around 2pm. Third, we are flying wood and fabric ships with best L/Ds
in the mid 20s (in our dreams). I could have gone another 10 to 30
miles but Tony reminded me over the radio that it would be more fun to
land together. Our pal Matt Sawhill (Folka 4) was up in his Cessna
140 talking to us on the radio and even offered to come get me if I
landed at the next airport. So, I just gently floated around in the
late afternoon lift relaxing in the peace and beauty, munching on an
apple, seeing how far I could go into the wind without turning... It
was peculiar to intentionally head to a farm field with a nice big
paved airport just a few miles away but Tony was right, it was more
fun! I've said for years now that a day like this is like a 2 week
vacation for me and man I really needed it. Thanks for the motivation
Tony!

Oh yea, fourth... Top of the boundary layer was almost 5500 agl at the
peak of the afternoon and there were no clouds. So we didn't do too
bad all in all

MM

I always enjoy reading about your adventures. And believe me it's
having the adventure that counts!

The pictures are great!! Keep it UP!!!,,,er whatever!!!!
Just have fun doing it!!!!

Gunnar

On Oct 29, 5:57 pm, Gunnar wrote:
I always enjoy reading about your adventures. And believe me it's
having the adventure that counts!

The pictures are great!! Keep it UP!!!,,,er whatever!!!!
Just have fun doing it!!!!

Gunnar

It was an adventure dive bombing Flagstaff with you in the 32 back in
87 or whenever it was. Great fun for a midwestern soaring novice.
Been chased by any tornados lately Gunnar?

Matt Michael

I uploaded the video of Matt landing in the field. his first comment
"so much for boldly going where no man has gone before"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAFYVPjG3Ck

thanks for all the kind words, gives me great motivation to keep on
doing what ive been doing.