175 kilometers from Quest Air yesterday
Another nice day at Quest Air here in central Florida yesterday
(after more than a week of them) with a pretty decent east southeast wind.
Pilots took their time getting going after the cu's started forming at 9 AM.
They planned a route to the northwest being sure to stay west of the Ocala
airspace (which is a recent addition for us).
With the east wind component the story is that Dean went way west of Lake
Panasoffkee. This is amazing as that is so rarely done, but the winds were
strongly out of the east and Dean kept jumping cloud streets to the north to go
north. Often we just go up interstate 75. He landed by Newberry to the northwest
of Gainesville about a mile away from a barbeque joint where all the pilots
enjoyed a great repast after a long day of retrievals. This was a cross wind
flight all the way.
Dean over the swamp feeding Lake Panasoffkee.
Campbell Bowen landed about eighty miles out. The story there was that he
apparently got bored. The pilot with the driver wrote down Olav's coordinates
incorrectly (decimal degree, not degree decimal minutes) and with the wrong
coordinate format and a foreign phone so Olav presented a retrieval problem. The
retrieval truck went out without a cooler full of drinks which didn't help the
parched pilots.
Old lesson learned anew.
Florida is cooking.
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