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Friday is forecast to be a pretty good day. Lift up to 4.9 knots. High temps at 84 and wind out of the NNE at 8 knots. Cloud bases around 7500 to 8500 feet msl. Don will be out and can tow. I’ll be out to fly. Any one else interested? This could be one of the best days of the year, who knows? John Lincoln
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Hello:What time are you starting? I can assist on the ground and fly.Regards,Rich
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Unfortunately something came up with my transportation so I won’t be able to make it. Hope everyone enjoys today; can’t wait to fly another day.
Also, if anyone who flies regularly at the club (especially CFI-G) is able to email me (yonatanchicago@gmail.com) your cell phone number so that in the future I can communicate for last minute updates, I would greatly appreciate it. -
Hello:
Today had 11 flights. Most flights were 13 to 30 minutes or so. Don Grillo managed a 1:13 flight in the 1-26! I have no idea about John Lincoln’s flight since I left before he landed but he definitely stayed aloft for a long, long time. Brynn and Mike Palmer had some student flights while John Scott, Kees, John Lincoln, Dennis Burke, Don Grillo and John Osborn did their flights. Gregg and I took up Pumpkin for a short flight before we put everything away for the afternoon. It is nice to have Pumpkin back but Stars and Stripes also wants to fly! (Also both 1-26’s, Krosno and PW5.)
The weather:
Saturday: Mostly sunny, with a high near 92. Light south wind becoming south southwest 5 to 10 mph in the morning.
Sunday: (Not so great)<b> </b>A chance of showers and thunderstorms, then showers likely and possibly a thunderstorm after 1pm. Partly sunny, with a high near 83. South wind 10 to 15 mph becoming west southwest in the afternoon. Winds could gust as high as 20 mph. Chance of precipitation is 70%.
And, for Jonathan’s question, just call the field at (847) 683-7627 to see if anyone is flying or to just chat about what is going on.
See you tomorrow!
Regards,
Rich
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And thanks to Mark for instructing!
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Nick Legenza gave me a great tow, Thanks Nick. I hope you are able to build some PIC time that is so necessary for you aviation endeavors. Friday had some challenges. I was only able to fly 23 miles in my first hour. It took me 35 minutes and two thermals to finally get up to 6000 msl. After I was finally able to get high things worked out better. I had a nice tour of the country side. Went to Lake Lawn first, then Poplar Grove then Rochelle then back north to Kirkpatrick back south to Aero Lake Estates and finally back to SSI. 191 miles. I was trying to see if I could fly Gold distance which I made. (186.7 miles) My high was 7700 msl and my averager had my thermals at 3 knots. There were a few spots at 8 knots. All in all a nice 4 hour ans eleven minutes. I feel for those who had trouble. I found plenty of 8 knots down and I can easily see why some folks weren’t able to stick today. And the smoke was awful. Most of the time I could only see about 5 miles. I hope it blows away sooner rather than later. Again Congrats to Nick, nice work! John Lincoln
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Saturday was a challenging day for Soaring. It was mostly a blue day until around 3 PM when we started to get some cu’s popping. Finally, we had some lift that brought a few of us up to near 7000 feet. It was a hot one but we all stayed well hydrated.Just to change things up a little bit. We also had a car show at the club today.
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