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Thanks for the post. Sounds like a great flight and a dream come true.
I fly a motor glider out of Hayward, just south of Oakland and I've had a few "dream come true" flights in the area also. The first was making it across the Sierras at Yosemite without the engine. I'd soared across the Sierras at Tahoe many times, but the mountains are much higher and wider at Yosemite, and I play it cautious in terms of having the engine on whenever I'm not within safe gliding distance of an airport (for various reasons an off-field landing is not an option in my ship). The second dream flight was soaring over Yosemite Valley itself -- really going up. That happened when I found mild wave at the east end of the valley and got to almost 18k. The two remaining dream flights (at least that I've thought of) would be a) making it all the way back from the Sierras to Hayward without the engine. I had hoped that might happen the same day as the wave flight, since a 50:1 glide ratio should have almost allowed me to make the roughly 150 nm from my altitude of almost 18k feet. But reality as well as a head wind left that as a dream yet to be realized. b) making it all the way from Hayward to the Sierras with just a short engine run to launch. Brian Choate did the equivalent last year when he launched from Hollister, got real high down by Panoche and made it all the way to Truckee via Yosemit-- in a pure glider. Anyone make any of these dream flights or have others to share? |
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Martin Hellman wrote:
b) making it all the way from Hayward to the Sierras with just a short engine run to launch. Brian Choate did the equivalent last year when he launched from Hollister, got real high down by Panoche and made it all the way to Truckee via Yosemit-- in a pure glider. Anyone make any of these dream flights or have others to share? A dream flight would be to duplicate Brian's *and* make it back home (Hollister, in my case) the next day. He got close on the return flight, but not quite all the way home. But it's gonna be a while before I have the experice to try going *that* far. -- Jeremy N304GT |
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