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2006 OLC early leader
If you haven't noticed, the 2006 OLC season is already underway. Tom Knauff
and the Ridge Soaring Irregulars have taken an early lead in the international club standings. I'm guessing they plan to keep it if they can. The rest of you guys need to get going. Bill Daniels |
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Bill Daniels wrote:
If you haven't noticed, the 2006 OLC season is already underway. Tom Knauff and the Ridge Soaring Irregulars have taken an early lead in the international club standings. I'm guessing they plan to keep it if they can. The rest of you guys need to get going. Of course, we are thinking about it, but it's a cyclical thing: thermals are over for the Northern hemisphere, but the Allegheny ridge running isn't. Soon the Southern hemisphere will light up with good weather, then in March it's back to the Northern hemisphere. Somewhere in there, the Argentina Connection will give us some flights to ooh and aah over, and late in our Winter season, I'm betting Kempton I. and Gordon B. will enthrall us with a few good flights, too. In fact, I'm looking forward to the Gordon v. Kempton "Extreme Soaring" matches even more than the Argentina venues, in part because they'll fly in my country, and because I know them both (Kempton more, because he flies the same model glider I do, and Gordon less, because I've only met him once). For us here in Washington State, our hopes lie on downwind dashes from wave, an unexplored idea here. It's not clear we can connect with the next waves, as they are 90-110 nm away. Also unexplored is long wave flights south along the Oregon Cascade Mountains, most likely leaving from Hood River, Oregon. We had an exceptional soaring season in the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington) this year, as you can see by the Seattle Glider Council's placing in the OLC 2005 club standings, so we are optimistic this will also be an exceptional wave year. The clear vision panels are installed, the oximeter batteries renewed, oxygen bottle topped off, and the warm coveralls pulled out of storage. I'm ready! -- Change "netto" to "net" to email me directly Eric Greenwell Washington State USA |
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"Eric Greenwell" wrote in message ... Bill Daniels wrote: If you haven't noticed, the 2006 OLC season is already underway. Tom Knauff and the Ridge Soaring Irregulars have taken an early lead in the international club standings. I'm guessing they plan to keep it if they can. The rest of you guys need to get going. Of course, we are thinking about it, but it's a cyclical thing: thermals are over for the Northern hemisphere, but the Allegheny ridge running isn't. Soon the Southern hemisphere will light up with good weather, then in March it's back to the Northern hemisphere. Somewhere in there, the Argentina Connection will give us some flights to ooh and aah over, and late in our Winter season, I'm betting Kempton I. and Gordon B. will enthrall us with a few good flights, too. In fact, I'm looking forward to the Gordon v. Kempton "Extreme Soaring" matches even more than the Argentina venues, in part because they'll fly in my country, and because I know them both (Kempton more, because he flies the same model glider I do, and Gordon less, because I've only met him once). For us here in Washington State, our hopes lie on downwind dashes from wave, an unexplored idea here. It's not clear we can connect with the next waves, as they are 90-110 nm away. Also unexplored is long wave flights south along the Oregon Cascade Mountains, most likely leaving from Hood River, Oregon. We had an exceptional soaring season in the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington) this year, as you can see by the Seattle Glider Council's placing in the OLC 2005 club standings, so we are optimistic this will also be an exceptional wave year. The clear vision panels are installed, the oximeter batteries renewed, oxygen bottle topped off, and the warm coveralls pulled out of storage. I'm ready! -- Change "netto" to "net" to email me directly Eric Greenwell Washington State USA The Minden guys will probably give the Ridge Soaring guys a run for their money as soon as the Sierra Wave kicks up but others have a good shot too. The Albuquerque Soaring Club has wave and year 'round thermals. They used that fabulous weather to garner (No pun, Chip) first place for the US this year. Howie Banks appears to have the ability to 'warp space' and instantly jump to places hundreds of miles away - at least judging from his May 16th trace. (Or was that an alien abduction?) The Soaring Society of Boulder has a humongous wave and a lot of aggressive pilots. A couple of years ago I flew 3 hours in 10,000 foot thermals at Warner Springs, CA on December 27th. Heck, today I coached a 3-hour student through an hour of thermal soaring at Boulder, CO. Watch the OLC. This is serious competition. Winter is no excuse. Bill Daniels |
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Bill Daniels wrote:
"Eric Greenwell" wrote in message ... Bill Daniels wrote: If you haven't noticed, the 2006 OLC season is already underway. Tom Knauff and the Ridge Soaring Irregulars have taken an early lead in the international club standings. I'm guessing they plan to keep it if they can. The rest of you guys need to get going. Of course, we are thinking about it, but it's a cyclical thing: thermals are over for the Northern hemisphere, but the Allegheny ridge running isn't. Soon the Southern hemisphere will light up with good weather, then in March it's back to the Northern hemisphere. Somewhere in there, the Argentina Connection will give us some flights to ooh and aah over, and late in our Winter season, I'm betting Kempton I. and Gordon B. will enthrall us with a few good flights, too. In fact, I'm looking forward to the Gordon v. Kempton "Extreme Soaring" matches even more than the Argentina venues, in part because they'll fly in my country, and because I know them both (Kempton more, because he flies the same model glider I do, and Gordon less, because I've only met him once). For us here in Washington State, our hopes lie on downwind dashes from wave, an unexplored idea here. It's not clear we can connect with the next waves, as they are 90-110 nm away. Also unexplored is long wave flights south along the Oregon Cascade Mountains, most likely leaving from Hood River, Oregon. We had an exceptional soaring season in the Pacific Northwest (Oregon, Washington) this year, as you can see by the Seattle Glider Council's placing in the OLC 2005 club standings, so we are optimistic this will also be an exceptional wave year. The clear vision panels are installed, the oximeter batteries renewed, oxygen bottle topped off, and the warm coveralls pulled out of storage. I'm ready! -- Change "netto" to "net" to email me directly Eric Greenwell Washington State USA The Minden guys will probably give the Ridge Soaring guys a run for their money as soon as the Sierra Wave kicks up but others have a good shot too. The Albuquerque Soaring Club has wave and year 'round thermals. They used that fabulous weather to garner (No pun, Chip) first place for the US this year. Howie Banks appears to have the ability to 'warp space' and instantly jump to places hundreds of miles away - at least judging from his May 16th trace. (Or was that an alien abduction?) The Soaring Society of Boulder has a humongous wave and a lot of aggressive pilots. A couple of years ago I flew 3 hours in 10,000 foot thermals at Warner Springs, CA on December 27th. Heck, today I coached a 3-hour student through an hour of thermal soaring at Boulder, CO. Watch the OLC. This is serious competition. Winter is no excuse. Well, darn it, it is for us! And, actually, for a lot of pilots, because the days are short, short, short, which makes long flights much less likely. Long thermal flights are simply out of the question (2 or 3 thermals does not a soaring day make), and long wave flights have several constraints besides the short day: it's cold, which often means (here, at least) more and lower clouds that won't even let us up to 18,000 feet, plus cold that can be punishing, again below 18,000', much less the altitudes Gordon likes to use; and it's winter (did I mention that?), which often means snow on the ground (outlandings get very awkward), and cold, which means surviving after a successful outlanding could be difficult. We might be able to do some long distances on our ridges, but a 4 mile ridge means the OLC would have to change their scoring to about 100 legs per flight... -- Change "netto" to "net" to email me directly Eric Greenwell Washington State USA |
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2006 OLC early leader
Eric Greenwell wrote:
Bill Daniels wrote: If you haven't noticed, the 2006 OLC season is already underway. Tom Knauff and the Ridge Soaring Irregulars have taken an early lead in the international club standings. I'm guessing they plan to keep it if they can. The rest of you guys need to get going. Of course, we are thinking about it, but it's a cyclical thing: thermals are over for the Northern hemisphere, but the Allegheny ridge running isn't. We were running in wave as much as ridge. Strong inversions aloft let us carry water without antifreeze. Very unusual to get 4 good wave days in a row. Nice to run at 100 kts without pounding turbulence or frozen toes. |
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