Just because Tony keeps making me envious of great landouts

Tony keeps posting great pictures of beautiful fields he lands in. We
don't have those around here. What we DO get is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmJr2IBES70

I guess I can live with that.

On Jul 12, 5:39*pm, Grider Pirate wrote:
Tony keeps posting great pictures of beautiful fields he lands in. We
don't have those around here. *What we DO get is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NmJr2IBES70

I guess I can live with that.

yea what is the deal with the inverse relationship between landable
fields and thermal strength? I flew at Marfa this spring and had a
couple 8-10 knot thermals. It was great until I hit the 8-10 knot
sink. Bravest I got all week was to get 12 miles from the airport.
If I could've gotten to 15,000 any of the days I was willing to
consider making a run to Alpine and trying for Gold Distance over the
highway to San Angelo.

I think I'd rather grind at 1 or 2 knots at 1000 AGL and actually go
somewhere, at least until I get something a little higher performance
so I can actually go somewhere when there is no where to land between
airports.