Just a local soaring

After three days of non flying, everyone was anticipating a great condition today. The forecast was encouraging. In the morning, there was a bit of high clouds, but we hoped that they would somehow clear out and we have good thermals. Unfortunately, it didn't. As the day progress, we had more high clouds, and eventually the whole sky was covered. Some people caught wave, and went up to 16,000 to 17,000ft, but mostly thermals were topped around 14,000ft. A big wildfire near Panguichi didn't help generating thermals in the north with the southwest wind. But at least, we had a few hours of soaring! Tomorrow and the day after tomorrow are supposed to have more moisture. We are crossing fingers that that does not mean thunderstorm..

Later, I heard that someone overran runway 22, and slightly damaged glider and also ran over someone's wingwheel. Overrunning runway 22 seems to be common mistake here. Prior to our stay was a Region 9 contest, and two gliders overran runway 22 and did minor damage to their gliders.

In the morning

At the end of day