Sandra Acres
Tuesday, 10/22/2024
EJ to the VOR to Noon Peak to Snowball
to landing in the Santa Monica Creek Ranch Driveway off Hwy 192
Longest SLOFD flight in the United States for Tuesday
and Sandra's longest flight to date from Santa Barbara
and Sandra's 1st time posting the longest flight for the day in the United States

Reference: [IGC Text Data File] and [Google Earth KMZ File]

15.3 Miles Straight Line Over-Flown Distance (SLOFD)
Max Altitude 6,001 Ft MSL
2 hours 14 minutes 58 seconds / Takeoff at 10:56:58 / Land at 1:16:56 PDT

Leg 1 ~ 4.0 miles / EJ to the VOR Turn Point
Leg 2 ~ 15.3 miles / VOR Turn Point to Snowball End Point
19.3 miles total SLOFD (Straight Line Over-Flown Distance) distance around 1 turn point (2 legs)

Overview Image Pending??

Glider: Niviuk Ikuma / EN-B

Sandra's Narrative posted to Telegram on Tuesday at 17:05

Next time I need to fly past Snowball with other pilots.
Could not figure out how to stay up on my own, even though I had a decent altitude when I got there.
It just went downhill from there…

Telegram Notification post by SD on Tuesday at 16:54

It appears our Santa Barbara front range yielded the longest SLOFD flights in the United States again today (Tuesday), sweeping the podium with 1st , 2nd, and 3rd place (based on XCfind and Telegram)

Sandra Acres appears to have won the day in the SLOFD (Straight Line Over-Flown Distance) category with a 15 plus mile leg from the VOR to Snowball.

James Acres’s inReach breadcrumbs show his long leg starting at La Cumbre Peak then turning at Noon Peak, further east than Sandra’s eastern point (Snowball), but Sandra turned at the VOR, so a bit longer than James’s leg.

Thorin Day (flying with James?) isn’t listed on XCfind but his XContest log measures his leg from the Alternator to Noon at just under 15 miles, so more than James but less than Sandra.

All three launched from EJ and did an initial westbound leg.

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