Today is a practice day. The day started with a pilot meeting at 10am. Then, all gliders including mine were on the grid by 1pm, and they started launching around 2:30pm. Since I'm not in the contest, I always launch last, after all contest gliders took off. Even though there are 45 gliders, because there are three towplanes and because the operation is so efficient, it takes only 1 to 1.5 hours to launch all gliders. I launched around 3:30pm. A positive side of launching last is that there are so many thermal markers flying ahead of me. I got up to 11,000 ft or so quickly, and headed north. I saw Bear Lake airport, Lave Hot Spring airport, Downey airport, and came back to Logan airport. All these airports looked very good.
Convections started to die down around 5pm, which wasn't too surprising. It was a short flight, but was a good introduction to the area.
Glider grid on runway 10 at Logan airport
Flew 255 km
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It was a short flight, but was a good introduction to the area.
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Julie
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