A little flight to get used to the first part of the  record
flight to come

The flight
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Chris Zimmerman and I took a little warm up flight from his home in Georgetown,
Texas knowing that we wouldn't be setting a record given the forecasted weather
to the north of Houston. We're both on Wills Wing Falcon 4 195's, big gliders,
great for staying up in weak lift and drifting down wind. We had a 15 mph tail
wind.

We also flew a bit on Sunday, but I got off low (600' AGL) on both of my tows
and didn't get any where. Chris found 700 fpm and got up high. Mike Degtoff, our
tow pilot, sternly told me to stay on next time. He also wanted me to stay on
the cart longer so that he could get the light weight trike off the ground.

So I was first off on Monday and sure enough at 700' (I stayed on a little bit
longer) I pinned off in good lift. Mike knew it was good also and joined me to
show it was good and to encourage me to stay in it. I also pulled the cart way
off the ground trying to stay low behind Mike.

Protowing Falcon 4 195's behind a low power trike is quite an experience. Mike
was flying at 40 mph and I had the bar absolutely stuffed, which I'll tell you
is not easily done on this glider. Chris, in addition, had his knees up at the
bar that he was stuffing when he was towing.

There were plenty of cu's in the neighborhood, unlike the big sink hole that we
were in on Sunday. I climbed to 3,100' AGL off of tow. Chris was just behind me
and climbing.

We connected the dots north before getting low and beat up from devils in the
grass southwest of Temple. I wasn't in contact on the radio with Chris so I
couldn't tell him to keep far to the east so there we were heading toward the
lakes.  Thankfully we got up and got out of there. I didn't find the next
thermal back to the east so landed north of Belton.

Now we wait for the weather to turn. The summer solstice isn't here yet.