While flying a local slope on Sunday, the lift would suddenly "cave in" (for lack of a
better
description) on small sections of the ridge for a short period (just a few seconds)
and push any
planes in the vicinity straight down and pancake them into the ground. These dead
spots were very
localized and simply flying a few feet (like 20-30) further up or down the ridge got
you out of it.
There were maybe, 7 or 8 pilots there and all thought it was "very wierd air" and none
that I spoke
with had ever experienced conditions quite like these. It wasn't like sink you'd get
from behind a
passing thermal, and the lift was fairly consistent most of the day. Wondering if
anyone else out
there has flown in slope lift and had these odd little patches of heavy sink? Having
just had a
major wind event (Santa Ana) here in SoCal, could that have any bearing on this?
...Curious.
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