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06 / 27 Flyin a Fun Friday 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. more info Fri: Looks rather good Start: 19:24 more info
06 / 28 Flyin a Fun Friday 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. more info
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07 / 1 Tue: Looks real good 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! more info Disappointing 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. more info
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07 / 4 Fri: Nice Forecast Start: 08:32 Looks like a great day. The key difference in the forecast today is the B/S ratio is a perfect score saying it 'should' be no problem to stay up....mainly due to stronger lift (than Tues) and much lighter wind. I suspect you will get tou about 4500'asl. The 10AM forecast shows a perfect B/S ratio so you should be able to soar from 10AM on (in theory). Lift will be light all day tho. Don't soar too late tho...you don't want to miss the party. There's even signs of convergence as you head towards Chatham. more info Dowsett BBQ Start: 21:02 Party! BBQ! Pool party! Friday July 4th. 5PM til the last person leaves. We're having it on Friday so it doesn't conflict with weekend flying. Bring the entire family - there will be kids of all ages (0-70+ yrs old). We're supplying burgers 'n' dogs. BYOB and bring a small salad or dessert to share. No eggs or nuts please. We also host a ring-toss tournament (like horse-shoes)...it's lots of fun for all. more info
07 / 5 Sat: Nice! Start: 09:07 Looks like a great day for local soaring...light winds, the B/S Ratio of 7+ means it 'should' be easy to stay in lift (unlike Canada Day where the B/S was 1 or 2 I think). Lift is light tho....reported at 450fpm (less your sink rate of about 200fpm) - so stick with what lift you have. This is the 1PM forecast, the 4PM forecast is similar but not quite as good. more info 4h for Kenny Start: 09:28 If you weren't there today you missed the best day I've seen at the field this year. I guess that's not saying much as I've only been out a few times but it was good enough to stay up for almost 4 hr. Lift varied from light to 1000 up (once). Topped out at 4400'. Had my share of luck with a couple of 500' low saves from the field north of the hanger. Bob, Don, Milko, Terry, Troy, and Steve had some good flights also. Hopefully they will post their stories. more info
07 / 6 Sun: Nice? Start: 09:09 Sounds like Sat was the day to be out! Sunday may be close to the same conditions more info
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07 / 11 WTM Corridor - R&FT Teleconference Start: 13:00 End: 15:00 ..2:55 Over the last number of weeks, NAV CANADA has contacted a number of customers and stakeholders to assist us in the identification of potential issues with some proposed changes associated with the Windsor, Toronto, Montreal Airspace and Services Review. NAV CANADA will be hosting a conference call to review the risk analysis and mitigations derived from the issues and concerns which were raised through the consultation. The Conference Call will be held on Friday July 11th, 2008, at 1:00 p.m. I has the call-in info if you wish to be on the call. more info
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07 / 15 Tue: So-so Start: 10:05 more info
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07 / 17 Notifications Event Testing Start: 23:52 This groundbreaking event will happen today more info
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07 / 24 Thu: Now it's not looking so good Start: 01:25 Now the forecast looks like crap (Until MAYBE Sat) more info
07 / 25 Fri: Yuk Start: 01:28 Not looking good... more info Fri: Maybe good Start: 08:24 A tiny bit breezy for local soaring but certainly doable. The B/S ratio is 4-5 so it should be somewhat easy to stay up (theoretically). Good direction for going XC but the B/S ratio drops to 2-3 by 4PM. DR Jack says it's a solid 5 earlier and going to an 8. more info
07 / 26 Club Meeting Start: 20:00 End: 23:59 We have scheduled a SOGA club meeting for this coming Saturday July 26th at Steve and Cathy's home in Guelph. more info Sat: Good risk of thunderstorms Start: 21:21 It looks like Sat is a write-off due to thunder-storms....check the forecast in the AM more info
07 / 27 Sun: Now it's doubtful... Start: 21:23 Now 40% POP, "Some" showers, high of 25, and windier... more info