Monthly Archives: December 2016

Excited to fly your new toy, winter will be coming soon and you are desperately trying to get some flights in before the snow shuts everything down...Snow, clearly not talking about Southern California. You have a few things you should be tinkering on, but it is another soaring day so you postpone it.

The brakes could use some adjustments. But it's going to take a while to take them apart,

Most of my ridge soaring experience is with students and trying to keep them off the mountain. "Where is your way out?" Is what I ask them a lot. I have flown Mifflin PA a few times, even won a nationals there. Only once did a nameless pilot and I try taking ourselves out on the ridge.

It started out as my fault really, he said we wouldn't make the glide. I said we could make it in a 2-33 (we

A few weeks ago I mentioned once the thermal averaged drops then leave. Really it should be once it drops below your average of your next thermal, then leave. Don't leave a thermal until you feel that you can beat it. I have rolled out of an embarrassing amount of thermals to only look at the average too late. Effectively leaving a good thermal for a worse one.

Let's think more about the rollout.

You got low (you probably made promises to anyone you could think of) and now finally have a weak climb. You switched to survival mode and only cared about climbing, no matter how slow. You haven't mentally recovered from that low point and you are still happy with that weak climb all the way back to the top of your working band.

You probably threw in the towel and are just thinking about getting