Alternator Saturday
Posted: Sat Sep 05, 2009 10:47 pmThe Eagle van rolled out of the “T” at 10:30am Saturday morning with lots of rookies ready for their first high flights from the Alternator. We had 5 of our new students who were eager to get a longer flight than what the training hill has to offer.
The cycles were light out of the SE as we arrived at launch and Rich and Tom showed us it was more buoyant than the day had looked on paper. All of the new eaglets Jon, Malcolm, Karl, Norm, and Alec got really nice flights. Norm’s first high flight turned into a 45 minute thermal clinic. He was looking like a pro sticking with the cores over the top of west bowl. Pilots were getting to just under 5k. Our Brazilian representative Mar took advantage of the nice lift and had a really nice set of climbs. This was her second high flight, and she was looking very smooth with great weight shift and brake inputs.
The whole crew did great and worked what seemed to be a thermal convergence which lasted a couple of hours around west bowl. Once the SW pushed through it wasn’t quite as buoyant.
We can’t let a flyable day slip by, especially when we have new eaglets eager to soar. We will be looking at it again tomorrow so check for the morning post on the eagle web site or back here tomorrow to see how we did.
The cycles were light out of the SE as we arrived at launch and Rich and Tom showed us it was more buoyant than the day had looked on paper. All of the new eaglets Jon, Malcolm, Karl, Norm, and Alec got really nice flights. Norm’s first high flight turned into a 45 minute thermal clinic. He was looking like a pro sticking with the cores over the top of west bowl. Pilots were getting to just under 5k. Our Brazilian representative Mar took advantage of the nice lift and had a really nice set of climbs. This was her second high flight, and she was looking very smooth with great weight shift and brake inputs.
The whole crew did great and worked what seemed to be a thermal convergence which lasted a couple of hours around west bowl. Once the SW pushed through it wasn’t quite as buoyant.
We can’t let a flyable day slip by, especially when we have new eaglets eager to soar. We will be looking at it again tomorrow so check for the morning post on the eagle web site or back here tomorrow to see how we did.