Michael Texler wrote:
> The original BORING report, don't accept any cheap imitations. ;-)
>
> Sunday 25 Feb 2001 at Adelaide Soaring Club,
>
> The day started with middle level cloud and rain spots. There was an easterly
> blowing with patchy lift to ~3700' (as well as annoying sink).
>
> Remaining aloft was a struggle generally.
Up the road at Whitwarta, things were largely similar with the day commencing
with a light SE to S breeze with the only thermals in the patches of sun between
the patches of AltCu drifting across from the WNW. With the thermal strength
depending exactly on how big the gap in the AltCu was, I saw 4.6kts ave in one of
two thermals that were workable during my 33 minutes. In the early part of the
afternoon a heavy patch of AltCu passed north of the field trailing a dense
shower of rain, after which the wind turned NE for the rest of the afternoon
until the SW seabreeze came in after we had knocked off about 1600. I had a
further 17 minutes in that NE breeze but didn't get above launch height of 1300'.
Yet one of our old-timers had an hour or so in a Hornet up to about 4000 during
the afternoon.
One TIF and a couple of passenger-friends complemented an otherwise very subdued
operation.
--
Leigh Bunting
Colonel Light Gardens
South Australia
Find out more about Col. Light Gdns. here -
http://www.cobweb.com.au/~pknight/clghs/
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