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Sunday 9/14/2014 [Weather] and [Flight Articles]  by [SD] [Chris Paul] [Bendan] [John Scott] [JD] [Dizzy]
[Sat 9/6 by Dizzy] / [Wed 9/10 by JD] / Fri 9/12 by [Dizzy] [JD] & [Ken] / [Sat 9/13 Elsinore] / & [Misc Post]
Plus 2014 Mid September [Photo Sets] and [Track Logs]

Miscellaneous Postings for The Weekend of Sunday 9/14/2014

Tuesday 9/16/2014

Jonathan Dietch's Tuesday Flight
Launch at 1:26 from Crestline and and fly westbound 31 miles to a turn point
then head back toward AJX but opt to land short due to heavy cloud development to his east?
60 minute video
http://youtu.be/88YmRtcoFb8

Monday 9/15 (or was it Tuesday?)

Edward Skow reports he crewed for a sailplane pilot, Andrew Kevins, who flew out of Solvang in the Santa Ynez Valley up to Mina Nevada (about 275 miles straight line, but much further dogleg around the corner) and back to Silver Queen Mine near Mojave (about 235 miles straight line), for a distance around one turn point of over 500 miles.  Andrew's wife brought the retrieve vehicle to Edward, and he went north as far as Big Pine, which was the northern end of the clouds, to maintain radio contact.

Santa Barbara / Sunday 9/14
Copied from http://sbsa.info

Posted by highas on Sun, Sep 14th 2014, 10:24 PM
sunday was crackin!  realtime 10 degree all day difference got some above 6k.  had a nine pile w jah to the top.  went west went east landed at summerland beach.  8 others at east beach

Posted by nark on Mon, Sep 15th 2014, 08:47 AM
yepper.  ej on sunday and everyone went straight up on launch.  the temps are only a few degrees cooler on top right now.  may be better later in the day today

CSS  Pilot Forum / for Saturday 9/13 

Big Air Day Sat  /  For Elsinore
Copied from:  http://www.crestlinesoaring.org/node/926
Submitted by ETJ on Sun, 09/14/2014 - 09:43

Forums:
Pilot Reports
I heard from a birdie that it was a 15k+ day yesterday @ the E for a select few that managed to launch early and survive the Sun blockage.. The SoCal X/C group was there in full force. Birdie also related it blew down early snagging a lot of pilots and that no hangs got off. Thats the E. for ya. Great flight one day sucky the very next. Today and tomorrow more of the same. Staying home in my air conditioning today.
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Reply by Tom Swanson on Sun, 09/14/2014 - 11:32 / Marshall
Copied from: http://www.crestlinesoaring.org/comment/2227#comment-2227

Big Air Everywhere
Chris VV made it to Barstow.  I couldn't keep up and landed in Apple Valley.  Len flew to Gorgonio and back on his pg.  And several on the XC League flew from Elsinore to Hanger 24.  What a day

Email from Jonathan Dietch / Additional Saturday (9/13/2014) Flights from Crestline

Chris Van Velden flew from Crestline to Barstow on his T2C hang glider. Two other pilots joined him OTB but landed along the way.

CSS  / for Friday 9/12
Copied from: http://www.crestlinesoaring.org/node/924
Submitted by ETJ on Fri, 09/12/2014 - 20:09

Big Friday

Submitted by ETJ on Fri, 09/12/2014 - 20:09 / Regarding Elsinore)

Spike and Wilmer took off at about 12:20.  Spike plummeted to the LZ.  This after he made fun of my last to sleds.  Wilmer made a low save after getting caught in the same air as Spike.  Chuck and I Launched at 12:45 in almost no wind.  We both fought really hard for at least 30 minutes to stay in the air.  As we did our best to stay airborne, Spike showed up back at launch for a second go.  This time he faired much better.  He blew right through us and climbed to 10k in the first thermal.  At about 1:30 it turned on and clouds began to pop over the ranches.  Everyone topped at 10k and crossed to hwy 15.  I didn't go as the clouds were still forming.  Pretty soon topped out at 11.4k  Clouds were at 12-12.5k.  Thought I was gonna make cloudbase. 3:00 and reports were everyone was down.  Watched Chuck and Spikes landings.  Went to 4 corners and back at 8k. Spun around the LZ for many minutes in 200 down.  Perfect no step landing. So much fun.

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Replay by Ken Howells replied on Fri, 09/12/2014 - 21:50 / Regarding Marshall

Cool
Glad you got a good one, Jack!  I flew from Marshall after 2 PM and the best I got was 8,700.  All the thermals weren't that strong but some were over 1k FPM up at times.  They seemed to slow around 7k but the very core would push through and you could get higher if you stayed with it.  Some BIG sink too.  Don't know how high they got earlier; heard some PG's went NE into the desert.  I was real glad I had tucked my gloves behind my parachute container before launching.  Fun 2 hours of looking around.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhA9QlogudM

Here's the view north from 8,700 MSL above Sugarpine Peak. (click pic for original)

Chris Grantham and FlyAboveAll made a number of trips to Pine during the period.  Multiple pilots were able to get high late the the day and fly back to Ojai, but I'm not aware of anyone posting articles about their flights.

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