Saturday, 9/14/13 [Weather Archive] and [Flight Articles] by [BobA] [NMERider] [Sundowner] [Fly Above All]

onathan Dietch (aka NMERider or JD)

Pine Mountain to Crystal Air Glider Port
Saturday, 9/14/13

About 85 Miles from Launch to Landing About 91 Miles from launch to turn point About 6 Miles from Turn Point Back to LZ About 97 Miles Total Distance Around 1 Turn Point 5 hours airtime Max Altitude 13,500 feet Launch Pine at 11:28 AM, 7000 feet Land at Crystal Air Gliderport  at 4:23 PM 3,415 feet Wills Wind\g T2C144 / Hang Glider

Downloadable Track Files:  GPS [IGC File]   &   Google Earth [KMZ File]
track log [http://www.paraglidingforum.com/leonardo/flight/827782]

Article Copied from: http://scpa.info/bb/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2880#p8609
Posted by NMERider » Sat Sep 14, 2013 10:05 pm

Sundowner, BobA and I met w/ El Diablo at the Ash St lot and were on launch by 10:30. Sundowner went a few miles further along an entirely different route. BoA got unlucky at Quail Lake. No time to write.

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Altitude Chart

Google Earth looking South

Chute End 12700'

Wisps above Frazier seem from 8K

Looking back on way to Neenach

Follow up post copied from: http://scpa.info/bb/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2880#p8615
Posted by NMERider » Mon Sep 16, 2013 5:08 am

http://youtube.com/watch?v=i0hioClKjLQ#
Quick edit of the flight from the track log and some of the video. The camera froze at Neenach before I got sand blasted by a dust devil in a 7000' climb from 600' AGL.

Follow up post copied from:  http://scpa.info/bb/forum/viewtopic.php?f=1&t=2880#p8620
Posted by NMERider » Wed Sep 18, 2013 3:59 pm

For pilots learning the routes, my track log [http://www.paraglidingforum.com/leonardo/flight/827782] shows a number of reliable thermal triggers that have worked fairly consistently on past flights including Westbound OTB from Crestline.

One of the best parts of Saturday's flight was being in a vehicle with pilots who were there from the beginning and have been an integral part of the Pine X/C experience throughout its history.  It really doesn't get much better than that.  It would have been great to have a documentary filmmaker aboard to capture the oral history and the flying plus chase itself.

I think I hear my rocking chair calling me.

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