Saturday 4/7/12 Flight Articles by  [Andy Dainsberg]  [SA]  and  [SD]

Saturday, 4/7/12
The Alternator to Nordhoff High School in Ojai
About 27 Miles

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by andy dainsberg » Posted Sat Apr 07, 2012 5:02 pm

yep that was me~ very good eye SA! i made it to Ojai pushing thru East the whole way. Brendan, sd and i met up w/ fao to fly from alternator today. brendan had tandem duty.- from launch, sd took a front point E tack and i surfed over to la cumbre below the high ridge but sustained just fine. i had @ 4k at tf, @ 4500 near the powerlines, and well over 5k at several points downrange. I burned thru lots of neurons picking the best glide angles to take out in front of spines (esp whiteledge) on this flight. on 1/2 bar for most of the glides to keep it in the mid-teens- and still, sd was uncatchable. the ojai range was booming and still East. great but punched up lift had me high between Nordhoff peak and the Pyramid- when sd radioed he was turning around from E repeater. i thought "oh thank f-ing god." i was spent enough, it was pretty wind blown and i felt like landing- so took the easy glide out to the high school. sd decided to head back thru the pass... Brendan picked me up on retrieve which was a better feeling than the flight almost. fun day on a good spread.