Dashing downwind

Early last week I made a semi down wind run in my 1-26 over the swamps and timbers of south AL. Wanted gold distance but got s resl late start, made 220km, not bad for fairly low level flying.
Dan 1-26 #225

Hi Tony
Yes my flight is oosted to the olc, its in the club section but its easier to get to it thru the 1-26 assoc website, then ounch the online contest tab, it will take you right there.
Dan 1-26 #225

Tony I am going to be up your way next month. I fly dusters out near minot ND and will be bringing the 1-26 up there with me. Last year while spraying up there I consistently saw beautifull rows of cu's streeting to the SE. Although the bases were never ever too high, the streeting and predominence of active clouds made me drool to make a downwind run. In addition, the plethora of fields to land in was a real joy to see.
Dan 1-26 #225

At 16:58 12 March 2016, Tony wrote:
On Saturday, March 12, 2016 at 10:33:48 AM UTC-6,
wrote:

Early last week I made a semi down wind run in my 1-26
over the swamps and timbers of south AL. Wanted gold distance
but got s resl late start, made 220km, not bad for fairly low level
flying.
Dan 1-26 #225

Did you happen to post on the OLC? I'd like to see the trace!
220km is pretty respectable for a 1-26 this time of year. Another
month or so and the days will be a LOT longer!

OLC http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-
2.0/gliding/flightinfo.html?flightId=1452784263

Daniel Nezgoda wrote - Fairly weak and rough day, with the
wind tearing up the thermals, average around 300fpm but only
up to about 4200ft and very narrow/choppy below 1500ft so it
was work. Conditions were soarable early, by 10:30 a guy could
have crept along albit low, but I could'nt get a tow pilot to come
out till around 11:45 and finally got out on course by noon. I was
gonna have to push pretty aggressively to make the distance. I
was shooting for gold distance north of Birmingham but condx
started to deteriorate by about 3:00pm, with high thick cirrus
shutting things down. I had to stay as high as possible the last
45 minutes as the lift was so broken below 1500ft that to fall
down there would have been a hole taking forever to climb out
of. All I can say is southern Alabama sure has a whole lot of
pine forest, as I worked over many areas of 5 to 11 miles solid
pine and scrub pine forest. Does'nt make one feel too relaxed
flying a 1-26 at 2,000 LOL. End of flight I diverted due east to
land at a little private strip that looked workable on the
sectional. A very long wait for my crew as to get up into this
country takes all single lane roads, finally got home and to bed
by 1AM.

GREAT FLIGHT - Cheers ...Jock