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Flight Articles from Thursday 6/29/07 (in order of posting time stamp)
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Andy Palmer
Thursday, 6/29/06
Pine to Rose Valley

Good to fly with the Taliban, (I wonder if the FBI is monitoring our forum?) OJ, and Faoro at our local mecca.  Last few runs up to Pine kept me under 10k, today was up to 12k, and also felt some nipping of its teeth in the mixing zone.

We saw cumis all the way to Tehachapi, but as was stated the path was littered with big lentis to the east.  Wind direction was hard to figure-lost my shuttlecock for the second time-so I had to use the old fashioned way, which proves I'm an idiot because I flew straight into the wind on the glide out and was looking even with the top of the gap ridge between Chiefs and Nord when I crossed the old RV landing field so opted to land and work on my lee side thermalling some other day.  I had a nice 4-6 mph head until 30 feet then Xwind then tail, but I stuck the fast landing and ran it out.

Got a couple of big WO's in before landing.  Hope to see the conditions extend into the weekend.  SBSA is camping out at launch over the weekend, maybe we'll get to fly with the greyhounds OTB.