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Sunday, 8/16/2020 [Weather] and [Flight Articles] by [Sarah] [Sundowner] [Lorimer] [Daniel] [Willy] [Dave P]

Dave Patterson
Sunday, 8/16/2020

Sage Reserve Deployment

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Posted by Dave Patterson on 8/16/2020 at 9:09:31 PM
Congrats to everyone on their great flights today, especially Sarah on her milestone flight, and all the new P2s flying well in the SB mountains

A brief report from my incident at Sage this evening: conditions were WNW at about 14, pretty smooth.  I'd flown about half an hour, flying my Rush, which is anew wing for me and much hotter in maneuvers than my Buzz which I know well.  I entered a set of wingovers at about 2500, well out in front of the hill, aiming to keep the wing at or a bit above the horizon.  On my last wingover I muffed the timing somehow, my yaw swung back early, and I believe this led to a collapse; I took a 70-80% collapse.  I went hands up but then handled the resultant surge badly; what I believe happened is that I surged, stalled, and then surged hard again, throwing me through my lines; in any case I ended up upside down with my right leg tangled in my lines. I managed to get it out; at this point I was in a hard nose down spiral, with a significant cravat on my left side.  I applied full brakes and started to pull out of the spiral, but was losing altitude fast; I chose to throw, and my reserve opened smoothly, although I kept spiraling a bit.  I started to disable my glider with a B-line stall, but the ground was coming up quick and I decided to concentrate on spotting my landing instead.  I landed well, feet->butt, and was unhurt.  I radioed Chris, slowly packed up my glider, and walked out.  I'm unhurt except for a rope burn from a line on my right leg.

The lesson I want to learn from this is not so much glider control - I need to take more SIVs to learn that.  Instead I want to improve my judgment - I was trying maneuvers near my limit on a new, hot glider, without the skills to manage the cascading failure I was tempting.

In any case, congrats again to all the pilots on their awesome flights today, and I'm so happy to be able to share the skies & learn this amazing thing we do with all of you.


Posted by Dave Patterson on 8/16/2020 at 7:21:39 PM
To anyone following my track on xcfind, I am unhurt in a canyon below sage.
I'll post a report when back homme

 

 

 

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