Here's a good ol "Soaring
Report" from Gawler for Saturday 30/3/03.
It
was an absolutely beautiful day! A cool 20 deg on the
ground with lots of billowing Cus from 3,800' to about 6,000'. I
launched in my Cirrus at about 2pm and spent 3 glorious hours playing
around the Cu's. I wasn't going anywhere, stressing about outlanding,
worrying about optimizing climb strengths, I was just "Boating Around"
as the Hangies like to put it.
Interestingly,
I had enough "enjoyment time" to attempt
climbing up the side of the clouds in shear wave. The clouds had
absolutely no sign of shear wave but despite this shear wave was
there. On three occasions I climbed up the side of these Cu's to just
under 4,500'. A spectacular view and a very special experience.
The
reason I share this experience is because I was thinking
as I was flying around that we sometimes forget just how lucky we are
to be able to do what we glider pilots do. We have the luxury of
soaring in comfort and safety in machines of exceptional performance
and most of all we have the freedom to do it. I could not help but think
of all those poor unfortunate people in the world who have never
experienced soaring. Or, even worse, those people who associate
aircraft with terror and destruction, instead of pleasure and fun. I think
we are all very lucky!
Just musing.
Andrew
Wright (VH GAM)
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