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Originally Posted by John Bergeson
October is normally a month of strong winds and hissing rain in the
middle states such as Oklahoma. Randy Teel made a 6 hour-plus flight
in his Glasflugel 304CZ glider! He covered something like 700 miles
going up and down the ridges after a launch from Talihina, Oklahoma!
This is impressive flying that followed impressive organization! Well
done, Randy!
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I agree...and was just looking at the KML file in Google Earth. Nice work Randy!
I do have a question about the northeast portion of the flight...if Randy is monitoring this thread. In looking at the terrain traversed for the eastern-most portion of the flight, there is an area that has what looks like a lower ridge line north of a higher ridge line...the choice was to fly the northern, and lower, ridge...why? Was the southern ridge not working well because of airflow off the northern ridge? Cloud cover at the time?
Just trying to get into the in situ decision-making process. Again, congratulations on a great flight!