Cherokee on OLC

Steve Leonard was brave enough to make a public offering here on RAS that
he would loan me a logger. We are out in Ulysses this weekend for a
little soaring camp and got a late start today.

It was pretty neat having the cambridge on board. I can see why you guys
like this stuff, maybe I'll have to get one of my own. Weather was
decent here while it lasted and I got 2 hours in with a couple of 9ish
mile upwind runs and glides back. I was having fun just flying straight
and not losing much altitude. Trace he

http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0...Id=-1923163696

Considering I beat steve today by 4 points, I hope he'll let me have the
logger for the rest of the weekend...


-Tony Condon
Cherokee II N373Y

Great flight !!
Logging flights for OLC can be done with a simple Garmin handheld GPS. I
have a Garmin 76 that I have used.
The download is slow over their serial connection, and any more you need a
serial to USB cable.
The Garmin96 models have a very fast USB download.

If all you want is gps track download capability, simple is easy.
http://www.wingsandwheels.com/page11.htm

If you want to see it real time with map displays, then it gets busier with
PDAs, GPS cables etc.
I know local pilot that uses a blue tooth gps receiver clipped to his bucket
hat (actually I think his wife sewed a terry cloth pocket onto the outside
of the hat.) GPS bluetooth connects to his PDA and he has a moving map and
can capture the gps track data there for OLC.


"Tony Condon" wrote in message
...
Steve Leonard was brave enough to make a public offering here on RAS that
he would loan me a logger. We are out in Ulysses this weekend for a
little soaring camp and got a late start today.

It was pretty neat having the cambridge on board. I can see why you guys
like this stuff, maybe I'll have to get one of my own. Weather was
decent here while it lasted and I got 2 hours in with a couple of 9ish
mile upwind runs and glides back. I was having fun just flying straight
and not losing much altitude. Trace he

http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0...Id=-1923163696

Considering I beat steve today by 4 points, I hope he'll let me have the
logger for the rest of the weekend...


-Tony Condon
Cherokee II N373Y

"Tony Condon" wrote
Steve Leonard was brave enough to make a public offering
here on RAS that he would loan me a logger. We are out in Ulysses
this weekend for a little soaring camp and got a late start today.

It was pretty neat having the cambridge on board. I can see why you
guys like this stuff, maybe I'll have to get one of
my own. Weather was decent here while it lasted and I got 2 hours in
with a couple of 9ish mile upwind runs and glides
back. I was having fun just flying straight and not losing
much altitude. Trace he



http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0...Id=-1923163696

Considering I beat steve today by 4 points, I hope he'll let
me have the logger for the rest of the weekend...


-Tony Condon
Cherokee II N373Y

Yours as long as you want to borrow it, Tony! And I hope it can document
that flight you are hoping for this weekend! If you get a badge leg too,
and want to claim it, the calibration is on me!

Steve

Today the Cherokee and I ran 91 miles to the north of Ulysses. Started out
with some decently strong lift up to around 5-6000 AGL. not too shabby
considering some of my flights lately. South wind about 20 mph gave me a
little push and I was making decent groundspeed over the first 50 miles.
Then the lift started to weaken and I started to go down. high cirrus was
slowly creeping in from the west. I delayed as long as I could and landed
in a big soft dirt field after bout 2 and a half hours in the air.

Still made it home in time to visit with the other guys. Steve is
downloading my trace now, I'll post a link to the OLC entry as soon as I
have it.

tomorrow I will take off and head east as far as I can, crosswind. Gotta
get back to wichita anyway, might as well fly as far as I can.

This is probably the first time I've really done a camp sort of thing
with my glider and I've decided I need to keep it up. Very fun going to a
different place to fly, with friends.


-Tony Condon
Cherokee II N373Y

here is today's trace:

http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0...Id=-1832934424

-Tony Condon
Cherokee II N373Y

Hi Tony,

Is that your longest flight yet? It has been fun watching your flight
distances and speeds increase over the last year or 2. Well done. It is
clear you are having a lot of fun!

Paul Remde

"Tony Condon" wrote in message
...
here is today's trace:

http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0...Id=-1832934424

-Tony Condon
Cherokee II N373Y

Tony,

I notice that you were down to 440 ft AGL at one point and managed to climbout and keep going. Congratulations!!

Great flight!!!

Wayne
HP14 "6F"
http://tinyurl.com/N990-6F


"Tony Condon" wrote in message ...
here is today's trace:

http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0...Id=-1832934424

-Tony Condon
Cherokee II N373Y

At 13:40 07 September 2009, Paul Remde wrote:
Hi Tony,

Is that your longest flight yet? It has been fun watching your flight
distances and speeds increase over the last year or 2. Well done. It is

clear you are having a lot of fun!

Paul Remde

"Tony Condon" wrote in message
...
here is today's trace:


http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0...Id=-1832934424

-Tony Condon
Cherokee II N373Y



Paul,

not my longest flight yet, but top 5. Longest was a few years ago at 105
miles. I've had at least three flights (2 this season) in the 90-100
mile range.

I am definitely having fun.

Today i decided to run east towards Wichita, since I had to get home
tonight anyway. 2000 AGL tow from Ulysses followed by a good thermal that
I took to 10,300 feet MSL!!! thats the highest the Cherokee has ever flown!
I started to run east and was joined by Steve in the Nimbus after a while
but then there was big shadows and some buildling T-storms that shut
everything down. I delayed for a while attempting to make headway into
the 25 mph wind (HA) then made a run to the east a little further but
missed and landed in a dirt field. nice farmer who helped de-rig.

40 miles total distance from ulysses. Once I figure out how to download
off this Cambridge, I'll post to the OLC. Should be fun to see the spot
where I was "stuck" for about an hour.


-Tony Condon
Cherokee II N373Y

At 13:40 07 September 2009, Wayne Paul wrote:
Tony,

I notice that you were down to 440 ft AGL at one point and managed to =
climbout and keep going. Congratulations!!

Great flight!!!

Wayne
HP14 "6F"
http://tinyurl.com/N990-6F



Wayne - actually it was 440 Meters AGL. Still low enough for me. That
save was particularly invigorating.


-Tony Condon
Cherokee II N373Y

Paul,

not my longest flight yet, but top 5. Longest was a few years ago at
105
miles. I've had at least three flights (2 this season) in the 90-100
mile range.

I am definitely having fun.

Today i decided to run east towards Wichita, since I had to get home
tonight anyway. 2000 AGL tow from Ulysses followed by a good thermal
that
I took to 10,300 feet MSL!!! thats the highest the Cherokee has ever
flown!
I started to run east and was joined by Steve in the Nimbus after a
while
but then there was big shadows and some buildling T-storms that shut
everything down. I delayed for a while attempting to make headway into
the 25 mph wind (HA) then made a run to the east a little further but
missed and landed in a dirt field. nice farmer who helped de-rig.

40 miles total distance from ulysses. Once I figure out how to download
off this Cambridge, I'll post to the OLC. Should be fun to see the spot
where I was "stuck" for about an hour.


here is the OLC link for today:
http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0...Id=-1746780938

it didnt validate for some reason. probably cause i goofed something up.
oh well you can still see where I flew.
-Tony Condon
Cherokee II N373Y

-Tony Condon
Cherokee II N373Y