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Facebook: Adam Woolley's Gliding Adventures
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Date: 02/10/2011
Flight: http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/gliding/flightinfo.html?dsId=2141388
Flight: http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/gliding/flightinfo.html?dsId=2141388
Weather from www.the-white-knight-speaks.blogspot.com : A trough is
bringing extensive rain to central/northern NSW with lower falls in southern
Queensland. This will clear the coast on Thursday night, bringing a southerly
flow to SE Qld for Friday and the weekend.
Whilst the trough is bringing widespread rain to south eastern Queensland, falls are only expected to be 10mm or less across the Downs, but with higher falls to the south. This amount of rain is unlikely to suppress convection or cause out landing issues except in low lying areas.
Whilst the trough is bringing widespread rain to south eastern Queensland, falls are only expected to be 10mm or less across the Downs, but with higher falls to the south. This amount of rain is unlikely to suppress convection or cause out landing issues except in low lying areas.
Scattered Cloud @ 7000’.
Wind: 230/21(!)
Task: Kingaroy – Rosevale Strip – Kingaroy – Wondai A/F –
CPN – Kumbia – Kingaroy
Stats: 232km @ 87.07kph; 24% Thermalling @ 4.1kts; 43:1 for
13km glides at an average of 67kts IAS; Deviations of 7%
The day started out with lightish winds, before growing to
the predicted strength of 20kts. The
clouds starting early as RASP predicted.
Sadly though, as the Warwick State Comps were finishing and all the wind
about – it was a lazy start to the day with myself being the only single seater
airborne!
Straight off tow saw a solid climb to base, so I promptly
headed off on track. Instantly I noticed
progress was slow, though snaking up wind made it easier to connect the lines
of energy. Today I worked a top 1/3
working band, this worked a treat – the climbs were regular and reliable.
After checking out Bruce Taylors traces from the recent
state champs, I noticed he moved around the sky a lot – so I made a conscious effort
to do the same. I think it really worked
for me as reflected in the glide stats.
Working cross-wind to the North was good practice for the
tactical flying. All in all, I was happy
how I ran these two legs. I shared one
climb with my good friend in a K21, before taking a 40* deviation for 5km to
line up a good energy line. Pleased I
did this after reviewing the trace, gave me a 50km final glide!
The glider is performing nicely with the new ASI, seem to be
thermalling at 45kts now – and occasionally going up near the 50kt mark. So potentially an under-reading instrument
before. Also, my old man and I worked on
the sealing of the canopy again – with good results. Though I think I’ll put a little more felt
down, and seal up the rear O2 bottle hole to make the cockpit extremely quiet,
not just quiet :)
Safe Circles,
WPP
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