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Most amusing land out
I had a mildly amusing landout yesterday after a nice
day of soaring at Avenal Ca. I spent most of my 3.7 hour flight over 10,000', and some of it up to 12,500. Shearline was working great! There was wave, and repectable thermals. The whole time I had the field in glideslope, as I was not quite equipped for a landout (no radio, no phone, no phone humbers, etc) so I just enjoyed the view locally soaring a 70 mile triangle in my Sisu 1a. Upon returning, being rather pleased with my flight, I made a high speed pass. The wind had shifted since last looking at the sock a few minutes back, and my pass was rather high at it's lowpoint, around 400', so I decided to do another pass downwind and land into the wind since I had suficient altitude after pulling out from the first one. My second pass was nice and low, but I did not initiate the pullout early enough nor aggressively enough. Wind gradient was also underestimated, as well as the wind itself. When I finished my teardrop, I hit a nice patch of sink to boot and that was it. Now the fence before the runway was looming in on my canopy so I pulled the brakes and dumped it into the field next door. A 200 yard retrieve cost me 2 extra dinners. Paul Hanson "Do the usual, unusually well"--Len Niemi |
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