On Saturday, August 29, 2015 at 10:14:28 AM UTC-5, son_of_flubber wrote:

So for the foreseeable future, I'll be flying with a zero MacReady. Maybe relocate to a more popular XC location. Maybe FES someday.

Zero Macready? Really? May I suggest you read up a little more on the theory and practice of Macready settings. Reichman is good, also John Cochrane's articles at http://faculty.chicagobooth.edu/john...ring/index.htm

XC is more a matter of state of mind than of the weather. I've flown 500+ k XCs out west that required almost no skill and were borderline boring, and 100k XCs in the midwest that required all the skill I could summon to complete without ending up in a field. Guess which were more fun...

Kirk
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