How do you know if you're any good if bricks can climb
to 10K???

Come out east and see how well you can thermal in cigarette
smoke!


At 04:36 20 January 2004, Ted Wagner wrote:

How do you know if you're any good if the thermals
are so good that bricks can soar above 10K????????

Come back east and see how well you can do thermalling
cigarette smoke!

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