Sunday, 8/25/2013 Flight Articles by: [Andy Dainsberg] [Marty DeVietti]

Andy Dainsberg
Sunday & 8/25/13

Nuthouse to Top Landing at Chiefs
then relaunch and fly to Fillmore

Article Copied from: http://scpa.info/bb/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2861#p8558
by andy dainsberg » Mon Aug 26, 2013 7:11 am

The Vulture was Skying back to the ridge top when we got to launch @ 1030. -off at 1115. we tagged small 6's over the miles to chief spine. it was classic Chief Spine Elevator conditions once u got anywhere near Twin Peaks. we had am East along the way- so we top landed Chief to let the pm West come in. launching Chief in the summer around 130 is always fun and we had to pick our lulls. before i could launch Marty was up around 7k and Eastbound. i needed to surf east quite a bit lower (not optimum but it worked). we got our best alts at West Repeater-@7300. we flew over the Topa Bluffs and enjoyed the long hands off glide to Santa Paula Ridge- intersecting comfortably high. pretty easy traverse to SP Peak and enjoyed another long glide out over Fillmore with Ks to spare- pulling down at Vons. It was an active flight that commanded attention between the 2 long glides-... caught the bus (with a box of pizza and starbucks chaser) to the Ventura pier where my gf picked us up and drove us back to Ojai, making for a pretty efficient retrieve...