On Friday, April 20, 2018 at 8:58:23 AM UTC-4, wrote:
Annnnd he's up! John Bird, the deputy official observer reports Jonathan launched at 7:11am. SPOT shows him now driving along the Tuscorara. It's 8:50 and it looks like he's just about rounded the first turnpoint. That puts him around 35 minutes behind his planned schedule, but with an hour and 15 of buffer built into the task, he's got plenty of margin.

Now he'll be looking at making some speed along the long, flat run on the Tuscarora toward the Susquehanna River. He'll have two small transitions to make; one downwind at Sidneys Knob and an upwind run at Honey Grove. But these jumps are not all that big and they probably won't even require turning.

The tricky bit kicks into gear when he will have to negotiate the major transitions after the Susquehanna River toward Hawk Mountain. However, the TAFs report cloudbase at 4000ft and rising, so the thermals should be working solid once he gets there.

- Daniel


All the best,
Daniel

Here is the direct SPOT link: https://share.findmespot.com/shared/...qAltJnJlc9 qz