Ops Report  for Feb 28th

 

Six flights – some interesting flights – on an interesting day.  

Set out the equipment just as the snow started, waited a half hour or so until it cleared and we could see the ridges.  A couple of flights to test out what should have been outstanding ridge lift revealed that although the winds were “spot-on” for ridge, nothing there!  Solid overcast at about 6000’, but convection (rotor) under it that was workable, a fact established by Verne Kline.  

But – soon the overcast broke, wave clouds were obvious, and two flights went to just under 14,000’, Dennis Johnson in the Grob (his first wave flight), and Gordon Roesler in the Sprite.  Gordon had a low point of 1800 and a high of 13,900, and FOD at just over two hours.  

Oh, yeah – and two instructors got themselves legal with flight reviews, and new member Bill Burner got checked out in Club ships.

Beautiful day, thanks to none other than Eric Litt who hauled us all up.

 

 

 

Safety Meeting - Scheduled for Feb 23rd

 

Annual Safety Meeting at the FRR FBO building. It is mandatory to attend this meeting or watch the recording of this meeting prior to flying. Normal operations for the year begin after the Safety, DO, Instructor and Tow Pilot meetings.

 

Operations Report for Feb 7th

 

Today after a handful of tows the Pawnee would not start and eventually had to be towed back to the hangar. (Update Feb 11: replaced all 6 spark plugs on the #1 magneto. All systems nominal.)

 

Michael Ash took his "spring" check flight with Bob Sallada in the Grob. Craig Sutherland and Jim Kellett cut it short in the ASK-21 and headed down from 6500 in wave with cold feet (Jim was equipped to fly the ridge, not wave), but not before leading Vern Kline out into the valley and climbing up in a gap between wave bar (a.k.a. rotor or roll) clouds.

 

Vern took F.O.T.D. in the 1-36, continuing the climb to over 10,000 feet at up to 10kt, venturing back across several harmonics and up to Winchester and back down I-81. Vern's periodic altitude reports were not very well received by the grounded pilots holding out hope for a Pawnee restart.

 

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