How about Thursday 8/6

[John Lincoln]

If the tow plane is up and there’s a tow pilot I would like to fly. Also I’ll be out at 8 to start the hangar excavation. John Lincoln

[John Scott]

I’ll be out around noon to tow.

John Scott

[Karl Landl]

How does an operation look for Friday 8/7 ?

[ANDRZEJ CHICEWICZ]

August 07/20 recap

It was beautiful thermo day.Privet ship stayed over 2 hours in air.Student like me in pumpkin 1h:30min at 5500 ft msl.Thanks to John.S guiding

me to center of this fantastic thermo-vario show scale 8 up.But reaching bottom of the cloud,I struggle go down,finally using the spoiler and pich

the glider to 65mph,slowly i descend to 4000ft msl.Any advise from  experts

for future what to do when thermo suck you up?

Other event: Don.G fixed mystery oil leak(old Hustler),Fixed break and flat

on the Pawnee! super mechanik. Bravo!!

 

 

 

[John DeRosa]

Andrzej – The thing to do if you are getting sucked into a cloud is to fly to the next cloud!  Between the two clouds you will descend just fine.  (using spoilers is fine too)

[Karl Landl]

I will be out today Friday 8/7 hoping to be able to fly my glider. Karl

[John Lincoln]

This isn’t a complete wrap of Thursday, just an add on. The excavation for the hangar was completed. The gravel is scheduled for delivery on Tuesday. The building should start about two weeks after that.

Now flying. It was fairly good. Cloud base was between 4000 and 5000 feet AGL. Don Grillo and I flew together for a trip to Dacy, Downers Grove and back to SSI. I lost Don then and wanted to see some new ground so I headed NE to Crystal Lake, then to Pine Hill at the state line and then back to Downers Grove. After that it was on to DeKalb, got stuck on the way though and had to work my way out of the hole I crossed. From DeKalb it was back up to Dacy, ride the cloud street back to SSI, turn around and run back to Dacy a final time and back to SSI and landing. I measured 221 mile for all the legs but a somewhat slow speed of 39 mph. Thanks to Greg Tomczyk for sticking around till I landed and helping me derig.

A final observation. There was one thermal just south of SSI that had, at one point, at least 6 of the seven gliders flying yesterday. Don mentioned that ALL should be turning the same way. I mentioned that with that many ships in the same thermal and at nearly the same altitude everyone needs to keep their eyes out of the cockpit, head on a swivel. It was very much like flying in a contest. I hope all heard Don and me about thermaling direction and watching out, it’s very important.

Congrats to all who had good flights yesterday, it was a fun day. Hope today, Friday is just as good.

John Lincoln

[Petr Folwarczny]

I read the course of the flight and given that the height was only between 4000-5000 ft AGL (1,200-1,520m) and the distance was flown 221 miles (355km) it’s amazing. I also see that work has begun on the construction of a new hangar. There is a question – will we need to bring electricity to the new hangar?

[John Lincoln]

Yes Peter, eventually we wish to have electricity at the hangar. Is that something you could help with, i.e. engineering or wire size? John L

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