Yesterday a few of us enjoyed a brief late afternoon flight at Kahana. I was skeptical, but Woody convinced me to hike up. It seemed strongish, but worth giving it a shot. I'm glad I did! The conditions turned out to be perfect, and as usual, the lighting at that time of day was magical.
I flew across the bay but stopped short of Kualoa, since the clouds in that direction were dark and menacing. So I alternated between climbing over Kaaawa and heading out to sea, to find out how far I could go. On my longest push I made it over a mile offshore, and got back with plenty of height, so I guess I could have gone a bit further. Next time! Thanks to Woody for the ride back from Swanzys.
Roll call: Woody, me, TommyRD, Jason, Bonnie.
Track is here, and embedded below if your browser will display it.
Thursday, September 06, 2012
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3 comments:
Thanks for the read,
I have been MIA lately gotta really bad cold/flu now I wish it was the scotch cause I know the next day it would be gone. I caught Typhoid Joey.
Ok so you made it a mile out. I thought the next destination would be over land. But apparently you want to compete with Hawaiian Airlines and do inter-island action.
So you could have gone further hmmm Molokai?
JJ Jameson
Alex has already flown to Molokai. When I first discovered this site I read all the archived stories and read a scintillating account of Alexs' flight to Molokai. I was reading his story with wonder and amazement and thinking he had actually made that flight. Nice piece of writing.
Thanks for the writeup Alex!
I really like seeing your tracklogs. It really gives me an idea of where you are benching up and crossing to see where the lines are.
So I was looking at the time of the track and I noticed the time was off, then I noticed the times...sheesh.
07:00:36 start of flight
07:08:45 went as far back as you'd got at kahana before you started your line
07:11:20 left land
07:15:26 passed crouching corner(!!!)
07:48:34 turn to head out to sea
07:54:01 furthest out over a mile.
Holy Moley dude...you are up in 8 minutes and across and clear in 15. Nice rocketship piloting cap'n! :)
Whole flight was about an hour and you even got a mile out...*jaw drop*
Nice work!
=-) Sharky
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