Saturday, February 21, 2015

1 flight 30 mins at Cliffside (near Rufus, Oregon) 02-21-15

Robin , John and I flew Cliffside today and it turned out to be one of those tricky day because it was rowdy, gusty and windy at launch (with no wire assistants to help). In the air with only pockets of thermic lift mixed with big sinks...... But we all had a great flight. It started with dead calm wind and sunny skies at Eagle Caves so I went to Cliffside around 11:30am to meet up with John and Robin. We found the wind were blowing from wrong direction NW 5mph so we decided to carry our gliders to the PGs launch and hoping the east wind will arrive later or do a sledder in no wind condition. Around 1:30 the wind direction switched to perfect straight ESE 5-10mph but while we were setting up the east winds were getting stronger , it felt like 20-30mph. Robin and John got off first and John went straight up to few hundred ft above launch. We all had a great safe launch and John and I got about 1000ft over. We felt stressful in this kind of rock and roll condition so we all landed after about 30mins later.


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