TT 1000 km attmept

On May 3, 11:12*am, Tuno wrote:
A bunch of Help messages. I hope he's okay!

Probably found some shade in the area to the North. A good idea to
move around if you send help messages. Excellent proof of concept.
Jim

On May 3, 12:15*pm, JS wrote:
On May 3, 11:12*am, Tuno wrote:

A bunch of Help messages. I hope he's okay!

Probably found some shade in the area to the North. A good idea to
move around if you send help messages. Excellent proof of concept.
Jim

Okay message an hour ago. Coordinates point to a nice field on Google
Earth.

Frank Whiteley

Hands up all who zoomed in to look for the glider parked facing west
near to the gate in that field! The image is probably from years ago.
Hopefully we get a report on how the field actually was.
Nice try, Tim.
Jim

On May 3, 1:33*pm, Frank Whiteley wrote:

Okay message an hour ago. *Coordinates point to a nice field on Google
Earth.

Frank Whiteley

The Google Maps/GoogleEarth satellite image of Tim's landing plot is dated May 24, 2005.

Wayne
HP-14 "6F"
http://www.soaridaho.com/



"JS" wrote in message ...
Hands up all who zoomed in to look for the glider parked facing west
near to the gate in that field! The image is probably from years ago.
Hopefully we get a report on how the field actually was.
Nice try, Tim.
Jim

On May 3, 2:46*pm, "Stephen!" wrote:
Grider Pirate wrote in news:9d83f949-edf2-461e-
:

A bad day of flying, beats........

* I would *much* rather be down here wishing I was up there than up there
wishing I was down here...

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RCOS #7
IBA# 11465http://imagesdesavions.com

??? My lack of experience is showing. Under what circumstances would
you be "up there wishing I was down here"? I have only 710 hours
flying time (all in gliders), and so far, I've never wished I was on
the ground instead of in the air.

I am sure Tim will provide an excellent write up when he has time. He
is a professor at the local University and he was able to sneak away
today during finals. This flight attempt was many days in the
making. Tim has been scouting out the weather patterns, length of day
light, flight paths, etc for a 1000KM flight in north Utah for many
years. He called this attempt on Friday, coordinated the tow and
planned on wheels up at 8am. He made a great attempt and I am
convinced he will obtain his 1000K flight in UT soon. He did comment,
via his iPhone after walking 2 miles to get a signal, that he thought
the SPOT device would send 2 HELP signals and then stop. Once he
understood that it will send the HELP signal for a long period of
time, he turned the device off.

many folks locally were watching and kicked in gear to arrange the
retrieve.

Good luck at your next attempt Tim!

Ron Gleason

On 5/3/2010 5:02 PM, Grider Pirate wrote:
Intervening snips...

I would *much* rather be down here wishing I was up there than up there
wishing I was down here...


??? My lack of experience is showing. Under what circumstances would
you be "up there wishing I was down here"? I have only 710 hours
flying time (all in gliders), and so far, I've never wished I was on
the ground instead of in the air.

Heh. With luck, you'll never have to know in a 'first-hand' sense! Two
of my 3 microburst encounters had me wishing I was on the
ground...*while they were happening*!!! Yes, they were the first two.
No, I hope to never repeat the experiences. I 'got lucky' on the third
one...it wasn't nearly as bad as No.'s 1 & 2.

Be careful what you wish for...

Bob W.

On May 3, 7:48*pm, "Stephen!" wrote:
If you honestly cannot think of a situation that would make you wish you
were on the ground *RIGHT NOW* perhaps it's time to re-evaluate your risk
analysis process...

For gliders that's probably true. I have several times in my 30 years
of flying gliders wished that I had a lot more altitude *RIGHT NOW*,
but I don't remember ever wishing I were on the ground *RIGHT NOW*.

Altitude solves most problems. Ground contact solves few problems and
presents many.

Andy

On May 4, 12:10*pm, Andy wrote:
On May 3, 7:48*pm, "Stephen!" wrote:

If you honestly cannot think of a situation that would make you wish you
were on the ground *RIGHT NOW* perhaps it's time to re-evaluate your risk
analysis process... *

For gliders that's probably true. *I have several times in my 30 years
of flying gliders wished that I had a lot more altitude *RIGHT NOW*,
but I don't remember ever wishing I were on the ground *RIGHT NOW*.

Altitude solves most problems. Ground contact solves few problems and
presents many.

Andy

Maybe not "I wish I was on the ground RIGHT NOW" but plenty of times
where I would think " I wish I had landed 30 minutes ago !" or had
not even taken off.

Todd

On May 3, 7:18*pm, Ron Gleason wrote:
I am sure Tim will provide an excellent write up when he has time. *He
is a professor at the local University and he was able to sneak away
today during finals. *This flight attempt was many days in the
making. *Tim has been scouting out the weather patterns, length of day
light, flight paths, etc for a 1000KM flight in north Utah for many
years. *He called this attempt on Friday, coordinated the tow and
planned on wheels up at 8am. *He made a great attempt and I am
convinced he will obtain his 1000K flight in UT soon. *He did comment,
via his iPhone after walking 2 miles to get a signal, that he thought
the SPOT device would send 2 HELP signals and then stop. *Once he
understood *that it will send the HELP signal for a long period of
time, he turned the device off.

many folks locally were watching and kicked in gear to arrange the
retrieve.

Good luck at your next attempt Tim!

Ron Gleason

HELP messages go out continually for something like 30 minutes, just
to make sure at least one gets through. I normally leave mine on, as
there is no assurance that the first few get through - better too many
messages than not enough. When my wife calls and innocently asks me
"how's your day going dear?", then I know to turn it OFF ;-).

On the issue of moving around while the HELP messages are going out -
wonder if you can spell out "OK" or "RETRIEVE" with consecutive HELP
fixes. In my case, it would probably be more like "DARN" as I
wandered around kicking objects ;-).

TA