Denver Tour

We had a rather crappy day today. The sky looked spectacular until 11am, then clouds started to explode one by one. By 2pm, I was surrounded by ODs in three directions, and the only open direction was Denver Class B airspace. So, I just did Denver downtown tour over the Class B, and landed early.

By the way, Boulder is in the busiest airspace I have ever flown a glider in. Especially, when you go south from Boulder, you will cross three airways right around the altitude those big birds flying into or out of Denver International Airport are at. Every time I turned my neck, I would find a new jet 10 to 20 miles away. The amount of jet traffic was like 6 times as much as Truckee area.
So, as I normally do in Truckee area, I contacted Denver Approach to ensure that they were aware of me and that this was a glider. But their response was like "Why are you contacting us??". After I landed, I was talking with one of local pilots, but he also didn't seem to think about the threat of midair collisions seriously.

In the evening, Dave Campbell, Raul Boerner, and I had a drink at Murphy's.

Downtown Denver from 16,000 ft