The second day at Montague

Some people disassembled their ship and left Montague in the morning. But this place was too good to miss another flying day, so I decided to fly until 4pm despite a weaker forecast. The forecast was accurate again, and the flight was basically subset of yesterday's flight, so I won't go into detail. I took a few more photos and some videos of random stuff I saw at the airport.


This is the same place I had a nice cloudstreet yesterday. There were still good clouds, but they did't form a street.



A 360-degree view of Shasta Valley in the air. You can see Mt. Shasta, the town of Yereka, Paradise Craggy peak, and the town of Montague.


Siskiyou county airport seen from the air. This was the airport with the least security I have ever seen. There was no gate at all. Stray animals may just come in, and try to eat your airplane.


In fact, there was a stray cattle on the road. This little thing somehow managed to come outside the barrier, but was surprised by the outside world, and standing frozen for more than 30 min. Its friend cattle was watching worryingly and cluelessly from inside.


A US-made glider SparrowHawk. The wingspan is only 11m. The wings are so light that you can just hold the middle by yourself, and assemble it without using a one-man rigger.


The cockpit of SparrowHawk. Very simple. Like DG's, the canopy extends to the foot.


The front part of SparowHawk's cockpit.


An Italian glider Silent 2. This is also a small glider with 13m wingspan. This particular one had a self-launch engine in it.


Richard (the owner of Craggy Aero) showing me his product Craggy Aero Ultimate. The display was very bright, and readable under the sunlight. It's so bright that probably you want to dim it when you fly near sunset or under a deep cloud. The OS is Windows CE 5.0, and, it runs SeeYou or Winpilot. It seemed to be a good competitor to ClearNav.