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20.05.2017
2017 Quest Air Cross Country



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Well, we didn't get that far. We landed in a super big field that was small
enough that it was easy to walk to the locked gate.


The wind was 13 mph out of the east southeast at launch (and throughout the
flight). I pinned off early and then had to find something to climb up in from
1,300'. 265 fpm got me to 4,300' to catch up with Niki and we were on our way to
the northwest.


There were scattered thin cu's to the north and northwest and we just started
connecting the dots. But the lift was weak. I stopped in less than 100 fpm after
going the length of a cloud and we climbed at 200 fpm to 4,300'.


The next thermal proved stronger and it gave us hope that the day would be
turning on. We hadn't launched until 12:30 PM so you would think that it had had
time to get good. This thermal was 300 fpm but only to 3,800'.


 The lift was getting worse as we headed north. Broken with no cores to
find. It took three thermals to finally find coherent lift and we climbed to
4,700' at 360 fpm. We were just south of the Turnpike and east of the prisons.


There was a large blue hole to our north which is where we wanted to go to stay
on course. But there were reasonable looking clouds to the northwest over the
prisons. I went toward them as Niki chose to go north to what looked to her to
be a forming cloud.


As happened a couple of days ago the clouds that were to the west of our course
did not provide any lift. I went over the new housing development north of the
prisons and worked zero sink as Niki turned off to my east then came and joined
me as we found a small amount of lift that didn't last.


Niki headed further west toward some birds but there was nothing there. As she
landed I worked zero on the south end of the field but then this lift did not
appear to be any better than the worse that we had had so I joined her.


Later as we drove home the sky was much improved with vertical development, but
the blue hole was still there. The satellite photos show a beautiful sky and I
see towering cu's here at 6 PM. I guess that we were too early for the
conditions of the day.



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