Ridgely, Maryland
I wish I was going
Events
Sunday June 1, 2008
Monday June 2, 2008
(all day)
Start: Jun 1 2008 - 00:00
End: Jun 7 2008 - 23:59
Start: 01:09
Figures...the weekend is over and the forecast is better. XC Skies is showing reasonable lift and base of about 5000asl. Wind out of the west....could make for some great long XC to the East.
A bit breezy - certainly manageable at ground level and the higher wind would certainly help cover ground up higher.
I maybe tempted to go out (tug pilot required of course).
Tuesday June 3, 2008
(all day)
Start: Jun 1 2008 - 00:00
End: Jun 7 2008 - 23:59
Wednesday June 4, 2008
(all day)
Start: Jun 1 2008 - 00:00
End: Jun 7 2008 - 23:59
Thursday June 5, 2008
(all day)
Start: Jun 1 2008 - 00:00
End: Jun 7 2008 - 23:59
Start: 18:01
Direction has changed to South, still a tad windy, not much lift around. Chatham area has lift up to 3000'agl forecasted
Friday June 6, 2008
(all day)
Start: Jun 1 2008 - 00:00
End: Jun 7 2008 - 23:59
Start: 23:08
High of 29 degrees, now 10% POP, mainly sunny.
Windy tho - would be tough to stay at the field.
I think it's much windier than that...like 29 kts!
Saturday June 7, 2008
End: 23:59
Start: Jun 1 2008 - 00:00
End: Jun 7 2008 - 23:59
Sunday June 8, 2008
Tuesday June 10, 2008
Friday June 13, 2008
Start: 02:20
Still rather windy.
But once again, look at our area compared to Chatham:
Top of Lift:
Thermal Updraft Velocity
Saturday June 14, 2008
Start: 21:53
I thought it was going to be better than this?! I hope the forecast I seen is wrong.
Top of Lift (AGL):
Once again....Chatham seems the place to be!
Thermal Strength
Sunday June 15, 2008
Tuesday June 17, 2008
Start: 15:53
Yuk (yet again)...but yet again, look at Chatham...the only place where the B/S is good, the climb rates are 800fm, base is 6000'+
We're at the dark purple blob at the top of the image (shows 0-1000' AGL base) and Chatham is the Dark blue blob (shows 5-6000' base).
Life is so cruel!
Thursday June 19, 2008
Start: 16:02
Now Thursday isn't looking good either...and the weekend doesn't look good on The Weather Network but the forecasts on the radio says it's going to be dry...
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Saturday June 21, 2008
Start: 15:10
Lighter winds later. XC SKies says it's a good day. A rather high chance of thunderstorms tho...
Tuesday June 24, 2008
Start: 04:10
The forecast was ify...but the sky looked soooo good. Maybe this time we should have listened to the forecast (maybe I'm just bitter...). It was a strange day....from keys getting locked in trunks (Troy) to me breaking a weak link coming off of the cart (it was good it broke so easily) to broken aluminum (minor).
The clouds looked soooo good, I had convinced Ken to try a 50km triangle...but he and I just glided upwind and after finding ZERO lift, he landed and I high-tailed it back home. I planned on flying again but lost my drive after the incident and noone else stayed up much.
Start: 15:48
Looks like the only chance of flying for the next week or so. XC potential is very good. Younger said he's in for towing. It looks (marginally) better earlier.
The convergence of the winds seem to have moved out over lake Erie.
Wednesday June 25, 2008
Friday June 27, 2008
Start: 15:00
Start: Jun 27 2008 - 15:00
End: Jun 28 2008 - 17:36
Whole mess of fun on a marginal day.
Almost didn't go.
One of the nicest tows I've ever had.
THANKS STEVE
What a wonderful flight. Super light lift and some distance between
then but no real issue to stay near the field. You just had to lock on
like a bulldog and hang in the area till something better showed up.
Clouds were few.
Ken got a good hour I think.
Seagulls, even really low ones, were very helpful.
Landing was slow and I thought I had just enough to flare but it was
way too little; a classic wind gradient situation.
At 20 feet there was 10mph.
Saturday June 28, 2008
End: 17:36
Start: Jun 27 2008 - 15:00
End: Jun 28 2008 - 17:36
Whole mess of fun on a marginal day.
Almost didn't go.
One of the nicest tows I've ever had.
THANKS STEVE
What a wonderful flight. Super light lift and some distance between
then but no real issue to stay near the field. You just had to lock on
like a bulldog and hang in the area till something better showed up.
Clouds were few.
Ken got a good hour I think.
Seagulls, even really low ones, were very helpful.
Landing was slow and I thought I had just enough to flare but it was
way too little; a classic wind gradient situation.
At 20 feet there was 10mph.
Tuesday July 1, 2008
Start: 05:56
The only hitch in the forecast I see is there may be some high clouds and no or few cu's. The B/S ratio isn't all that great but should be fine. I'm hoping the "Thermal Top" field is what is most accurate!
Start: 15:12
End: 16:10
Disappointing. I had thought that the forecast was going to give us some XC'able conditions and I had hoped that XC Skies was under-calling the day as I had seen it do earlier this year - no such luck. I declared some pretty hefty goals for the day on those assumptions but it became evident real quick that those goals were going to be far from attainable.
Oh well, it was a nice hot, sunny day with 8 pilots out.
