Sunday, July 29, 2007

Flew Discus CS for 3.8 hours. A blue day. Went to Ramsey Gap turnpoint. Highest altitude was 9500 feet.

Indian Valley reservoir at 4:25pm


Looking west from Indian Valley Reservior


Ramsey Gap at 4:56pm


BLIPMAP Wind Shear at 1300PST and 1600PST


Flight trace

Saturday, July 28, 2007

Flew Discus CS for 2.7 hours. Went to Sheet Iron Mtn and M6 turnpoints, and landed on Willows airport. A blue day. Hightest altitude was 10,300 feet.

M6 turnpoint at 4:00pm


BLIPMAP Wind Shear 1300PST and 1600PST



Flight trace

Wednesday, July 25, 2007

Added the following glider sites to Soaring Search.

Individual's page
www.ranlog.com/ramsey/gliding.html
www.ranlog.com/pasco/tph98.html
www.soar-high.com/charlie/soaring.html
homepage2.nifty.com/JGAC/zerobase/
www.sonic.net/~pjkelly/

Cross Country
www.ranlog.com/pasco/tph98.html
www.ranlog.com/ramsey/tph500k.html

Racing
home.netcom.com/~pappa3
www.soar-high.com/soaring/Hilton/hilton_cup_2002.htm
www2.onlinecontest.org/bhc/
www.fai.org/gliding/bhc/
barronhiltoncup.org/

Sunday, July 22, 2007

Flew Discus CS at Williams for about 5 hours and checked out local turnpoints.

Looking north from Black Butte at 4:16pm.


Looking north towards Yolla peak at 4:30pm.


Yolla peak at 4:36pm.


Looking south from Yolla peak at 4:38pm. Still plenty of clouds.


Heading to the next cloud.


Looking south from Black Butte. Nice cloud street through Sheet Iron Mtn to St John to Snow Mtn. At 5:10pm.


Near Tree Farm at 5:49pm. Clouds started to disppear from south to north.


Flight trace

Saturday, July 21, 2007

Flew Discus CS at Williams for about 3 hours. Checked out Sheet Iron Mtn and Diamond M turnpoints.

Sheet Iron Mtn


Looking north from Diamond M.


Flight trace

Thursday, July 05, 2007

Checked out local landing sites near Williams, CA.

Cooks (length = 2000 ft). Very wide and smooth.


Cooks approach line.


Charter airstrip (length = 2500 ft).


Charter approach line. Power line is nicely embedded in the ground at the end of R/W.


Antelope Valley airstrip (length = 2800 ft).


Bear Valley ranch (length = 4,000 ft).


Bear Valley ranch.


Indian ranch (length = 3000 ft).