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Krzysztof Grzyb <<grzybk>> writes:

Yes, yesterday was nice and cold day. When I was driving to Enjoy
airfield yesterday morning I was little disappointed because clouds were growing
a little bit too fast. I was not expecting conditions would allow for more than
40 miles cross country because the overdeveloping signs.

We were slow. The wind was N – NNE about 10 mph with about 15 mph gusts. Gary
towed first. His tow looks like nice foxtrot dance. He released very soon in
nice lift going straight up to large Cu dark cloud base. It was obvious that we
taking off too late. The sky was covered 3/4 by Cu's.

On the ground it was a little chilly. A couple minutes later I took off next, it
was 12.50 pm. My tow was smooth (bad sign) without any beep. When we passed
2,000' Bogdan waved me off, I think he was already cold.

I find some 50 up but I can not find Gary, he already gone. When I reached
2500't I went down the wind about two miles to get under better looking Cu's.
Now it was easy: 700 fpm. The cloud base was about 3500' and lift was strongest
over there, so I need to escape to not be in the cloud.

After 20 miles I spotted Gary fighting over ground, he was very low but he came
back soon to be in the game. When I flew over him I did not find anything so I
went 1.5 mile down wind finding 300 fpm.  A couple minutes later Gary has
nice strong core and I saw him back but about 500 ft higher. Finally I find
stronger spot which took me back to the cloud base (4000 ft AGL).

I can’t find Gary. Now I need make long jump to next perpendicular cloud street.
The cloud were little strange. Some clouds forming cloud streets parallel to the
wind but most (80%) were forming perpendicular to the wind.

After long jump and losing a couple minutes finding lift I spotted Gary about 2
miles north of me  on approach to landing. It was about 30 miles from Enjoy
Field.

The cloud base was constantly moving up. In some point I was able to go 5400 ft
AGL. Maybe 2 or 3 times I was able to use nice cloud streets without making any
turns but most time this flight I was jumping from cloud to cloud where distance
was 2-4 miles.

Three times my harness was unzipped during this flight. Last time I open it over
Mulberry Grove, IL just over highway I-70. I landed 5.20 pm a little over 160
miles from Enjoy airfield. This flight was my 2010 year longest flight and my
longest flight made in any October. When I called Tom Klecha with GPS positions
he told me that they are 100 miles from Enjoy. It was great – 1 hour later Gary,
Rhanor and Tom came to me. With short stop for dinner we come back to Enjoy
about 11.00 pm.