Since I've only been forced to suffer the soaring in Arizona since I started four months ago today, I can only dread the eight in front of me. Fortunately there seems to be a terrific core of pilots in the state to act as a support group, and I look forward to meeting both of them. Heheheee.

I can't wait for my first visit to Minden (and beyond that sometime, southern France), but until then, this new pilot sees many reasons why he's called the Land of AZ home since 1990.

-el tedro in temp (not at all biased)

"Michael Stringfellow" wrote in message news:78TOb.20659$zP6.9562@okepread02...
I'm not going to submit anywhere in Arizona as a candidate for "Best Soaring
Site". At least down here in the Phoenix area, we can only soar reliably
for about nine months of the year. Soaring conditions are a bit spotty from
November through January (we only made about 100 miles cross-country last
Saturday, with cloudbase down low at 8,500 feet - and it was cold, only 72
degrees at the field). When it does warm up, the thermals are big, strong
and nasty. Kind of like flying in surf!

And when you turn up at the field to soar, they make you race!

Soaring is hell here!

Mike the Strike

ASW 20 WA