http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0/para/flightinfo.html?dsId=2961254

Live Track doesn't work so well:
http://www.livetrack24.com/track/233025/2d

The forecast was for very light winds and we were more than happy with that
forecast after the rowdy conditions on Wednesday with weak lift and winds that
were stronger than predicted. I basically wanted to get down as soon as possible
on Wednesday, but did a low save over the airfield just to keep from having to
land. The winds were light on the ground but 11 mph up above and when they are
out of the west it sucks here at Quest Air.

With the light winds on Thursday, it was a much different story. First of all I
waited to launch later just to be sure that I would have good soaring
conditions, but it turned out to be too early at 1:30 PM. On tow we were only
going up at 200 fpm, when in still air we should have been going up at 700 fpm.
I waited to over 2,000' before getting off in a bump, but it turned out to be
too little and I was very quickly back on the ground. Everyone else decided not
to launch.

I waited until just after 3 PM, with better looking cu's and pinned off at
1,200' in 400 fpm lift. Unlike the ratty air the day before the lift was buoyant
and smooth and a delight to fly in. No need to get to cloud base as there were
plenty of good looking cu's nearby and it was easy to head northwest a bit
upwind to get under them and get upwind of highway 33. Our turnpoint was the
Turnpike and 33 and then back to Quest Air for me.

The lift was coherent and pretty easy to find under the dark bottom clouds. I
tried the west (upwind) side of them and that worked getting me to over 5,500'.
Three thermals and I was at the intersection.

I headed back to the previous cloud before the dive into the turnpoint, got low
enough to make the search interesting, then climbed out to 5,500' again. It was
a glide all the way back to Quest Air without any difficulty.

Looks good for Friday heading north up highway 301.

Using my bare feet for very positive pitch control on landing:
https://vimeo.com/65861832.