Tight to 2 seconds, you found that boomer and had me offline in 3
minutes 40 seconds. Record roll out time, beaten only by Mark; I was
still running beside him when it lifted off!
Too bad I got dusted off so quickly and definitively by the
neighbourhood comp pilot, trying to chase him.
Lesson learned: pimping from below and behind don't werk so good.
Was barely able to scrape myself back up off the deck (took years to
get back up from 1300, the drift was so strange and wiggly) but ended
up being the EXACT same length (da movin' time on da gps don't lie) as
the last biggie: 3h51m. 7207 msl; 5700 agl or so.
Lots of fun chasing sailplanes over by 6 and way out of glide range
back to the field; and speaking of elastics, as Mark said, XC is like
a rubberband between you and the field. Pulls hardest as you get to
the limits of glide back, but then just snaps and you have no pull at
all.
At beyond 11 to one facing an upwind back to the field and thermals
really far apart, the task at hand became getting up good with the
sailplanes and waiting for a ride back home.
I can still hear the prodding/encouragement/goodnaturedridicule as I
was set to typically underexploit a great distance day and the three
of us looked at what appeared to be a more and more amazing sky on a
forecast blue day:
"ARTHUR and back?????"
