Flew ASW-24 for 2.5 hours. Landed on Charters. It was a convergence day with lots of sink.

ASW-24W

Added "Contest ID search" functionality to Soaring Search Engine. Now keywords that starts with "id" or "ID" followed by a space followed by two to three alpha-numeric letters will trigger onebox which links to Soaring Society of America's Contest ID database. Note that you need to have a SSA account and logged in to see the search result. Try id zz.

Flew DG-1000 with Christian for 1.7 hours at Truckee. Highest altitude was 14,000 feet.

DG-1000


Working on a good thermal


Lake Tahoe


Christian and me


Truckee airport

Flew Duo Discus for 3.2 hours by solo. Highest altitude was 9000 feet. Completed a 100km task (Tree Farm, Ramsey Gap, Indian Ranch).

Duo Discus


A good thermal over Walker Ridge at 2:43pm


Looking north from Walker Ridge at 3:00pm


Flight trace

Flew Discus CS for 3.7 hours. Highest altitude was 9300 feet. Flew about 100km. Was a blue and tough condition.

Discus CS


Flying over Walker Ridge at 2:12pm.


Dinner after flight


Dinner after flight


The main dish - local crawdad


Flight trace

Updated Soaring Search to show a subscribed link to FAA aircraft registry if a query is N Number. Try searching N120TA.

Didn't fly due to high wind.

Added Subscribed Links to Soaring Search to show links to BLIPMAP forcast. Try searching weather Wiliams, CA or weather nevada.

Created Firefox Search plugin for Soaring Search. Go to Soaring Search, and look for Soaring Search in the search engine dropdown list.