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March 22, 2016, 7:27:45 pm EST -0400

Quest Air Cross Country

Capped in the blue

Ken Kinzie|Quest Air

Greg Dinauer|Ken Kinzie|Quest Air

Greg Dinauer|Ken Kinzie|Quest Air

https://airtribune.com/questxc/blog__day_8

Big plans, but we didn't get very far. I was off first and the lift was weak and chopped up. Not all that pleasant. Greg Dinauer, Cory Barnwell, and Ken Kinzie came next. We all climbed slowly and we weren't getting that high. I pushed east into the seven mph wind to find another lift line. As I pushed further south to find weak lift everyone else landed. Larry hadn't taken off yet.

I hung in the lift as it improved and waited for Larry to launch as I climbed to 3,700'. Cory decided to relaunch and it wasn't long before Larry and he were working the thermal below me as we drifted west. We went back and forth in 50 fpm lift not getting to 4,000'.

Our stated task was to go counterclockwise around the Green Swamp but given the conditions and the obvious inversion it sure didn't look like we were going any where. Since Cory had landed he wasn't showing up anymore on Airtribune (that's  switch I can change). We don't know why Larry wasn't showing up.

We agreed that we weren't doing the task as we hung around a few kilometers west of Quest so I headed back to land. Larry was ready to land also but caught a good thermal and decided with Cory to do a little triangle to the north.

Conditions had improved and when I didn't want any lift I found it hard to find sink. The whole field was lifting off and I had to go away to find a sink hole. Even with the field lifting off, it was not a problem when I got below 500' to get into the field and land in the light east wind.

Cory and Larry took their little task to the north and then went out again to help John Maloney on a Sport 2 fly an out and return. He wasn't able to make it back.

Looks like we will have a good day tomorrow going far to the north again.

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