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Sundowner's Flight Report
Marco Polo x2
Top Land to El Carro Park
Reference: [IGC Text Data File] and [Google Earth KMZ File]
Thursday, 1/30/2025
3.5 miles
SLOFD (Straight Line Over-Flown Distance)
Flight A 17 minutes 48 seconds / Takeoff at 1:15:44 / Top Land at 1:33:32 PST
Flight B 48 minutes 5 seconds / Takeoff at 1:52:11 / Land at 2:40:14 PST / El
Carro Park
1 hour 5 minutes 53 seconds total airtime (2 flight total)
Max Alt 1,404 Feet MSL (about 300+ over takeoff)
Niviuk Artik R
as per XCfind, the 4th longest SLOFD leg in the United States today (Thursday) and the longest flight in Santa Barbara County
The day looked iffy due to extensive overcast (OD) but the low level lapse rate was good and the next few days (through the weekend) looked poor, so opted to go. A bit late getting to launch. Initially nice cycles upon hiking up to the ridge line but by the time Dave Patterson launched it was light and weak from the SW. Happy to be able to stay up. Mostly held the high ground and didn't search downhill east of takeoff. My minimum altitude was only about 30 feet below takeoff altitude, but initially could only get about a hundred over. Opted for a top landing to assist James with his launch. Doing a little better on the 2nd flight. Searched out to the west point several times hoping to find a workable thermal and was eventually able to get 300 over takeoff. Pulled a good glide to Snowball, arriving with over thousand, thinking surely I would climb up to cloudbase (we typically get higher at Snowball) but nada.
Rob Eschbach / 6.0 miles SLOFD (XContest)
Black Mt (San Diego) westbound
Kevin Fawcett / at least 3.9 miles SLOFD (inReach)
Black Mt (San Diego) westbound and back (eastbound) to takeoff
Jonathan Dietch / at least 3.7 miles SLOFD (Spot)
Kagel Westbound and back to the main LZ
Tom Truax / 3.5 miles SLOFD
Marco Polo westbound to the west point then eastbound to El Carro Park
Longest flight from Santa Barbara County today.
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