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Volume 19, Number 71
Thursday, April 9 2015
Quest Air, Sheets airfield, Groveland, Florida, USA
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Wed, Apr 8 2015, 9:45:30 pm EDT
Their virtual presence

Julie Spiegler|USHPA

Julie Spiegler «julie» writes:

USHPA is in the market for a Web Developer.  Our first project is AIRS - the Accident/Incident Reporting System.  It's a fully online system for reporting information that will be used by accident investigators and the Accident Reporting committee.  Over time there will also be detailed reports and statistical "products".

Interested?  Full description of the job is on the USHPA website: https://www.ushpa.aero/news.asp?id=237

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Wed, Apr 8 2015, 10:49:24 pm EDT
Another fabulous day in paradise

Bob Caldwell|Green Swamp Sport Klassic 2015|Quest Air|Tom Lanning

The task:

Four turnpoints.  A zig zag task assuming an east wind.  Cu's started popping before the 10 AM pilot meeting.  The start time was moved back again to 1:30 PM to make sure that we had plenty of lift for the pilots who launched first.

The forecast was for good lift, the kind we always get here in Florida with a high cloud base and light east winds.  So far we have had east winds every day.

Tom Lanning was off first and I was off at about sixth with my team right behind me. There was 100+fpm lift at 1,400' so I pinned off and slowly climbed up to over 4,000' as plenty of pilots joined me just over the launch area.  This time I only had to spend 40 minutes over Quest waiting for the team to congeal up at cloud base at 4,600'. Matt, Glen and I took off to the northwest with three pilots in front of us and plenty of cu's along the course line.

I glided 9 km to the nursery west of Mascotte.  The three pilots in front turned north at Mascotte and headed for some good looking cu's. Down to 2,200' I turned over the middle of the nursery and found 140 fpm.  Matt joined me. We saw Glen low on the east side of the nursery suddenly start climbing well.  We shaded over there and found 250 fpm to 4,600' and went on glide for the first turnpoint at Center Hill.  Matt was just behind me and I suggested to Glen that he climb up to cloud base before leaving.

It was a 10 km glide to the turnpoint and around to the second leg to a cloud where I saw three pilots, including Larry and Greg turning.  I was down to 2,500' before I got to the lift, but I thought that the glide was pretty good at 16:1 with an average sink of 220 fpm.  Matt behind me didn't get as good a glide and didn't get the first waypoint before he joined us in the lift.

It was broken and weak at 150 fpm.  I watched Larry high head for the next cloud and waited to see if he would turn.  I was hanging with Matt and Greg, and Tom was circling just off the deck below us. I headed for Larry when I saw him circling but Matt headed back to the turnpoint.  I didn't know at the time that he had not made the turnpoint, so I could not understand what the hell he was doing.

Greg, Jim Weitman and I climbed in Larry's thermal at 300 fpm to 4,600'. I didn't know what was up with Larry, but it turned out that he couldn't help any of his team as his microphone cable was broken.  So he was helping Greg help Jim.

As they all headed to the second turnpoint to the south I headed back north to find Matt and get him going.  He was circling low over Tom and with David Lopez.  They were in weak 60 fpm lift and I came over them and joined them in it. I needed to relax and stay with Matt.  Glen was behind but getting slowly to the first turnpoint.

I went south a short distance to a nice looking cloud, found 250 fpm and climbed to 4,600' as they all came in under me. At cloud base I told Matt that I was going to go to the big dark cloud south down the course line and that as soon as he got to cloud base to come join me. After a six kilometer glide I was in 350 fpm with Larry, Greg and Jim who had by then made the turnpoint only 3 km to my south and were back in this nice thermal heading to the next turnpoint to the north northwest.

At 4,800' and cloud base I went south to the turnpoint and then came back to the same area where I got up to find Matt not very high.  After fifteen minutes he finally found a nice thermal and we left for the turnpoint, for me again.  Glen was there but 1,000' below us as we took the turnpoint and headed back to the north to see if we could find the strong lift one more time.

I found 132 fpm and Matt came over to me as Glen landed just south of us. I climbed to 3,100' and said I'd go look for better lift to the north under good looking clouds.  I didn't find it and landed.  Matt landed soon thereafter, both of us just short of the third turnpoint.

Larry, Greg, and Jim struggled just south of the Cheryl (third) turnpoint (about where we landed) and Cory caught up with them.  Only a few pilots made it into goal.

Bob Caldwell«rcaldwell» writes:

Shot this looking toward Orlando from the gulf coast at 1 EDT.  38,000 ft. Sweet looking sky, hope soaring was great.

http://soaringspot.com/gss2015/results/club/daily/day4.html

http://soaringspot.com/gss2015/results/club/total/day4.html

https://airtribune.com/2015-green-swamp-sport-klassic/blog__day_4

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