Hot at Quest Air
Joe Schmucker <<wingloader>>
writes:
Yea. It's hot in Florida in August. However, it's a lot cooler up
above the clouds!
Here's a video of one of the coolest flights I've ever taken. Mark Frutiger said
"get your stuff on and let's go" so I did. It was only 10 am and I knew it
wasn't because the lift was good.
http://youtu.be/cjHRj1IU59o
Cloud base was at about 1200 feet so it didn't take long to climb above the
clouds. I chopped out the last part of the flight where I boated around above
the LZ for about 15 minutes at about 800 feet. Even at 10am, I was able to stay
up for a while.
An hour later or so Spinner and I flew for an hour and a half at cloud base
(3100 at 1pm) until we just felt like landing.
I've been here at Quest since Wednesday and I've flown 3 of the 4 days (waited
too long on Thursday and missed the window of opportunity). There is about a 2
hour window of great conditions then it over develops and rains for a while.
Just awesome flying here. Thank God the business office is air conditioned.
http://OzReport.com/1377612918
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