Avenal Wave Day
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- Опубліковано 27 вер 2024
- When the forecast for rain cancelld a day for the Avenal Soaring Contest 2024, the day opened up for some mountain wave flying.
Got off tow around 5000 feet and peaked at 14,000.
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As a private pilot I’m really excited to get into soaring, been watching all the videos on souring on YT. Looking to be a member St.Louis Soaring flying out of Hyland / Winett in Illinois…
Phenomenal view at 4:18. Thanks for sharing : ) (And thank you for maintaining your website! Been a great resource as I prepare for my checkride.)
Excellent. Thanks for letting me know it’s been a help,
Yeah that was a really cool sight to behold
Why are you flying alone??!!
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As a fellow glider pilot I can say that: if I was in a competition and am told, "Now competition today due to rain... but we do have some mountain wave..." you can bet I would be up taking a 5,000ft tow and getting into that wave. I have NEVER flown wave and I am SOOOOO envious of you.
There were two other gliders in the same wave, though we were not always together. They got a head start and continued a line that I didn’t find the connection to. But we joined up later. Another pilot was not able to connect with the wave from the tow (took me two tries as well)..
We have quite a few places in California that have regular wave flying in the winter and spring. Come on out and fly with us!
@@BillPalmer Bill I hope you read this message. I have went to France hoping to get into some wave. California is a whole lot closer to me (I'm in Toronto). I have already looked to airfield on Google earth and been making plans to come out.... I'll post more questions to you.
@@markplain2555 OK,great. Wave season is coming to a close. So good wave days will be less frequent. Have you looked into the established “wave camps”? They provide an excellent education and properly equipped gliders for high altitude, usually in concert with a wave window into the class A airspace. California wave windows are in flux right now but if you do contact me we can work to find something for you.
What date was this? (As a pg Pilot in the Bay Area, I am always curious to know what you all make happen that day with a real flying machines)
Saturday 5/4
Your videos are really clear and easy to watch! Thank you!
Thank you. Glad you like them. I Hope they may inspire your own soaring adventure!
@@BillPalmer They do very much! Iv got my checkride hopefully soon and im rebrushing up on information. I wish i had found your videos before!
@@excellenceinanimation960 don’t miss my website too. TheSoaringPage.com - jam packed with info and resources
@@BillPalmer Thank you very much I will check it out! Do you have information on all the different types of glider? As in how they compare any why? Wing airfoil differences construction techniques and materials? As a newbie to the world of gliders I don’t know any of this. I see a fancy discus and know it’s good but don’t know how good and why and how it compares to others or how to analyze for myself.
@@excellenceinanimation960 well, that’s a big subject, but it comes down to analyzing each glider’s performance plot called a drag-polar. It plots speed vs descent rate and will yield a glide ratio in still air at various speeds. All glider’s will publish a maximum glide ratio which is tempting to compare them by, but the real key is how hey perform when going fast!