Showing posts with label Area 151. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Area 151. Show all posts
Thursday, September 24, 2015
2.5 hrs/ 2 flights at Bremer & Dog
More good flying at Bremer today (Sept 23nd Wednesday) . There were two bags (Dave A, Dave Little) / five hangs (Stas, Tim C, Jeff B, Tim and myself) launched around 1:00pm and it was pretty easy to find lifts along Bremer ridge. Some good thermals reached up to 1300ft above launch. I flew for one hour and 20 minutes. Then, four hangs went back to Dog for the 2nd flight , it was really light with overcast skies. I launched around 5:15pm and surprisingly I was able to found enough lifts below launch boated around for over an hour. Shawn , Jeff and Tim C launched after me also got some good soarable air time.
Sunday, September 20, 2015
4 hrs /4flights at Bremer Ridge and Dog Mt on Sept 18-19, 2015
There were six pilots flew Bremer on Friday (3 hangs and 3 bags). Thanks again to PG pilot Kim for inviting me to fly Bremer and also thanks Dave Auman to letting us (3 hangs Travis , John Coyier and myself ) ) landed in his property (Area151). The flying was very good with plentiful XC opportunities at Bermer on Friday. The conditions at launch and LZ were really light from morning till 4:30pm (We left at 4:30pm). I launched at 1:40pm at the paraglider launch the first time so it feel like flying a new site to me. There were some beautiful little cumies clouds above launch providing thermals however I had to worked really hard to gain altitude in the beginning. I was struggled few hundred feet below launch for a while then hooked a nice thermal on the east side of the ridge. I flew for 1 hour and 40 minutes and topped 2000ft above launch (4200 AGL/ 5000 MSL). Once I got above launch the rides up to the cloud base were pretty easy and smooth.
Satuarday (Sept 19th):
I flew Bremer again with five hangs (Aaron R, Gary B, Kurt H, Ron B, John C) . Although mostly overcast with light west wind conditions, there was still a good amount of thermals allowing us to soar. I launched first and encounter some broken thermals mixed in with the good ridge lifts above launch. I boated back and forth few hundred ft over launch for a while , then headed to the east ridge and found consistent thermals. The top of the lift was about 900ft over in mostly smooth air. Gary and John came join me later and sometime they outclimbed me was even higher. After more than one hour of air time I decided to land so I have time to catch one more flight at Dog. Thanks a lot to John C going back up for retrieved.
Dog was really light but there was a lot of small tiny bubbles just enough for me and Brent (PG pilot) to maintain between 500-600 feet above LZ for another one hour flight.
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Sunday, August 2, 2015
2 flights 6 hours at Dog on Aug 1st 2015
I went down to Area 151 on Saturday morning after 3 epic days at Rampart, and then headed out to Dog with Travis and Paige. First flight I launched at 1:00pm and flew for 3 hrs. I went up again after lunch and launched at 6:00pm when wind turned north . The thermals just keep getting better, got 1000ft over the north ridge and went over to Elk and got really high (4000ft AGL) until 9:00pm. The last group when up to launch around 7:00 and winds turn more NE so they didn't launch.
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