tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20110414.post6015777402252733502..comments2023-09-28T09:00:44.681-10:00Comments on Wind Lines: Such a Perfect DayUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20110414.post-25605515073993359832011-09-27T17:32:47.855-10:002011-09-27T17:32:47.855-10:00WOW! Awesome flying everyone! Congrats to all of t...WOW! Awesome flying everyone! Congrats to all of the personal bests! We are so spoiled with the incredible flying here on Oahu. <br /><br />I just got back from some fun Maui flying at Poli Poli. I was hoping for a crater flight, but the guys said it was a tad windy and not the best direction up on Haleakala. <br /><br />Thanks to the Maui gang for all of the great thermal tips. I had two nice thermal flights and several very relaxing and peaceful sledders from Fern's. Thanks Dexter and Dottie for the shuttle rides and your warm hospitality :)MauiDoughttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16092802078489755320noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20110414.post-20084412214951032692011-09-27T16:21:39.810-10:002011-09-27T16:21:39.810-10:00Well done!!! So proud of you guys. All safely stre...Well done!!! So proud of you guys. All safely stretched the limitz. Would love to see a few track logs...JKhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09321659985625278675noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20110414.post-17756554007371227142011-09-27T09:22:23.074-10:002011-09-27T09:22:23.074-10:00Thanks, guys. Still thinking about that flight. I ...Thanks, guys. Still thinking about that flight. I checked, and the state record for straight distance is 31.5 miles, set by Doug on his comp glider, flying from Makapuu to a field in Kahuku just a hair past the golf course. Marathon Mark previously set it at 31.25 miles from Makapuu to Kahuku golf course, flying a very old DHV 1-2 glider. I wasn't gunning for anything but a personal best, and of course I really just wanted a better landing than on my last attempt at going that far. Although I wouldn't turn down the record if I happened to bag it. :-)<br /><br />Mad Dog still holds the overall distance record with a 45 mile out and return flight from Makapuu to Kahana. I briefly considered turning around once I reached Kaaawa or Kahana, but then I came to my senses.<br /><br />My max altitude was 3,600 and change, definitely in the white room; my max lift was 1,000 fpm; and my max sink was 1,400 fpm, probably during my very deep spirals to escape the cloud suck.Alexhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06249789335111913420noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20110414.post-91489138493121353152011-09-27T09:12:03.036-10:002011-09-27T09:12:03.036-10:00Alex try putting a way point or 2 on your gps &...Alex try putting a way point or 2 on your gps & or the altimeter to a destination away from the mountains so while whited out you can relax & just hold a heading & check for forward speed to calm yourself. <br /><br />I always fly x/c with 2 different waypoints set & I change them as needed to keep one to the left & one to the right of straight away from the mountains so I have the option to fly between the 2 points at any heading I choose best, then of corse I have my compass heading straight into the wind & I watch all 3. I went into only one cloud for a couple minutes at 3K & popped out the top of it 4K+ sitting back calm continuesly watching all 3 to steady my choosen heading. Hope that helps, watching the map of the island to me seems to vague & the 90' miss path was huge! Was a fantastic day & fun to be flying with you all, sorry I didn't wait but the cloud streets just kept setting up in front of me with blue holes coming in fast so I needed to connect the dots while they were presenting themselves to me. But I will take my time on the more important big traverse of triange peak & probably never Booga Booga land as it scsres the bejesus out of me!!!<br /><br />I did sidehill into a ridge in waist high ferns next to 300' tree's & it was my only option in the Lee of Triangle Peak, my first wild landing ever. At 1000' alt I had to go back to it as I was not making the 4wd roads we normally hit, only big tree canopy below or back to the saftey of a sidehill ridge?Mad Doghttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03744828556358847923noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20110414.post-62170786738946833192011-09-27T09:06:59.047-10:002011-09-27T09:06:59.047-10:00Congrats Alex, Jorge and Jack! I missed the XC tra...Congrats Alex, Jorge and Jack! I missed the XC train, but I had a blast going to greenwalls and back to MPU yesterday. Got sucked up in a cloud at greenwalls and got super high. Eventually it spit me out in a beautiful blue hole -- one of the prettiest views I've ever seen. Amazing flight. Crossing my fingers that there's more of these amazing days soon...Flashnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20110414.post-80732471854100027792011-09-27T08:42:19.111-10:002011-09-27T08:42:19.111-10:00Sweet flights everybody!! Glad to have been a par...Sweet flights everybody!! Glad to have been a part of it!<br /><br />Congrats Jack for the first XC, Jeorge and Alex for new personal bests, and everyone else for the great flights!Ducknoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20110414.post-31195843368823226772011-09-27T07:21:30.410-10:002011-09-27T07:21:30.410-10:00Oh, forgot Mad Dog & Jorge, well it was no big...Oh, forgot Mad Dog & Jorge, well it was no big deal for them they do this all the time. But congrats on your long flight Jorge and Mad Dog for his safe landing behind Pyramid, maybe you should mark that spot.Thomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07508629374134042936noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-20110414.post-62064185621695416512011-09-27T07:18:11.290-10:002011-09-27T07:18:11.290-10:00Great flights yesterday and thanks for the read.
...Great flights yesterday and thanks for the read.<br /><br />No worries about leaving me at the Stairway I wanted to tell you to go but couldn't break my hands free. <br /><br />It was not long when Frank & FireJack joined me of course they were way higher. <br /><br />I flew by the infamous ridge that had sucked me over with my Sport4, I actually felt the wing shutter as we got close to it. you can bet I checked penetration a few times.<br /><br />You were gone and I felt cloud base was starting to creep down so I headed to MDKS. I could see you entering Kaaawa Valley going the opposite way that we had trekked a few weeks ago.<br /><br />I was on glide and announced one of my very few words on the radio. "Go Alex Go!!!"<br /><br />Congrats on a new personal record. <br />Thanks for making me and the Sport4 the headline shot to this read. It made my morning coffee pretty damn sweet and I don't use sugar.<br /><br />Congrats to Jack & Frank for landing out with me MDKS, I think they may have been able to go farther.<br /><br />Big thanks to Bonkers for holding off on her flying time to take us back to MPU.<br /><br />That was so much fun lets do it again.Thomhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07508629374134042936noreply@blogger.com