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Jeff Longcor
Saturday, 9/5/2020

Oat Mountain (Fillmore) to Branch Mountain

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[JPG Overview] [Oat Launch Compilation Video]
83.4 Miles SLOFD (Straight Line Over-Flown Distance)
Launch at 11:22 PDT
Land at 4:34 PDT (5 hr, 12 minutes total airtime)
Jeff's1st flight from Oat Mountain and his 1st mountain flight on his new Meru canopy

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Posted by Jeff on Saturday, 9/6 at 16:41 PDT
I came close to punching it N into desert, wasn't sure I had retrieve and wasn't certain of reaching 58. Would have been some easy miles with the agl, but lined up a roadside landing and had a nice safe one.

Posted by Jeff on Saturday, 9/6 at 16:48 PDT
I came close to punching it N into desert, wasn't sure I had retrieve and wasn't certain of reaching 58. Would have been some easy miles with the agl, but lined up a roadside landing and had a nice safe one.

Reference [Oat Launch Compilation Video] 5th pilot in sequence
Posted by Jeff on Wednesday 9/9/2020 15:06 PM
I thought I'd share this launch video that Dominic and Jeremy took of me. I pulled up into a cross cycle and fell into my bad habit of letting go of the brakes. As the wing caught lift, I let myself turn the wrong way. I recalled advice from AB, either kill it immediately or get terrain clearance. I went for the latter and was fortunate to launch into relatively smooth air near relatively friendly terrain. The configuration was stable so I took a moment to analyze the twist and make the exit. I then put my dangling phone back on the flight deck and cleared multiple tumble weeds from the lines. I definitely need more time at the hill to practice powering up my wing with brakes in hand, something that I've found tricky with UP wings, but can be done through better footwork (DL advice), and doing a better pre-flight turn check and a better timed pull-up.

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