Boring booming days

On Fri, 06 Sep 2013 12:15:50 -0700, Eric Greenwell
wrote:

Wayne Paul wrote, On 9/6/2013 7:37 AM:
I changed "sc=1" to "sc=8" in the link below in order to look at
Region 8. I also clicked on the "All" in order to see all the flights
in the region on one page. What I found was that there weren't any
flights listed for Nampa, Idaho, or Driggs, Idaho.

Does anyone know why this would happen and what can be done to correct
the error?

On Fri, 6 Sep 2013 06:22:27 -0700 (PDT), Evan Ludeman
wrote:

http://www.onlinecontest.org/olc-2.0...S&sc=1&sp=2013

Perhaps no one had their best flight out of either of those places?

Thank you Eric. I should have done a better job at evaluating the
URL.

On Thursday, September 5, 2013 4:04:34 PM UTC-7, son_of_flubber wrote:
I fly in New England and staying up in the air is challenging on the majority of "flyable days". Every so often, we get a booming day (like today) and I commonly end up saying (and I hear other pilots saying), "It was so easy to stay up, I got bored."

BORED' is when you achieve the rating of 'ballast'
Get high. Try stuff, it may save your ass someday. Speaking of seat belts.....try to make sure the anchor points are NOT above our shoulders. I love my Speed Astir, but there is NO way to tighten the belts enough to prevent cranial /canopy violent interference at maneuvering speed ona bumpy day I have ersonnall made the Speeed Astir into a convertible in-flight. BTW, it flys jut fine without the (expensive) rear canopy!!!!

So what happens when a pilot who is used to scrapping for lift goes to the land of big, strong, and reliable thermals? Does the pilot get bored? Or does the pilot find other challenges to keep things interesting (like flying 300 km tasks and landing out on top of mountains).

Bored?

What planet are you on??

We just go fast and work on getting faster! But then I live and fly in the
UK so hanker after those rare "good" days!

JC


At 23:04 05 September 2013, son_of_flubber wrote:
I fly in New England and staying up in the air is challenging on the
majori=
ty of "flyable days". Every so often, we get a booming day (like today)
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d I commonly end up saying (and I hear other pilots saying), "It was so
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y to stay up, I got bored."

So what happens when a pilot who is used to scrapping for lift goes to
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land of big, strong, and reliable thermals? Does the pilot get bored?
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does the pilot find other challenges to keep things interesting (like
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g 300 km tasks and landing out on top of mountains).

snip I love my Speed Astir, but there is NO way to tighten the belts
enough to prevent cranial /canopy violent interference at maneuvering speed
ona bumpy daysnip

Had the same problem with my first LS-6a. The fix I came up with was to sew
velcro to the shoulder straps such that when you tightened them you could
connect the velcro. They'd stay tight.

Not to hijack the thread but...

When I was researching 5 and 6 point harnesses about a decade ago, I ran across a lot of writing about the purpose of the various belts. The shoulder straps are actually NOT supposed to hold you down; they prevent your torso from rolling forward in a sudden de-celeration. The lap/thigh/crotch straps are really charged with keeping you anchored to the seat. The problem, especially with earlier generation seat pans, is the geometry of the anchor points isn't optimal. There were a couple of good technical papers on the topic; they're on an old desktop machine somewhere around here...

P3

On Saturday, September 7, 2013 11:44:06 AM UTC-4, Dan Marotta wrote:
snip I love my Speed Astir, but there is NO way to tighten the belts

enough to prevent cranial /canopy violent interference at maneuvering speed

ona bumpy daysnip



Had the same problem with my first LS-6a. The fix I came up with was to sew

velcro to the shoulder straps such that when you tightened them you could

connect the velcro. They'd stay tight.

....And to add more to the thread...

The LS-6a did not come with a crotch strap (at least, mine didn't). I
bought a couple of large fender washers and glassed them to both sides of
the seat pan just below the stick, drilled through, and bolted in a fifth
strap. The buckle already had a slot for a crotch strap. Years later my
partner had a stall/spin at low altitude. He credits the crotch strap with
saving his life.


"Papa3" wrote in message
...
Not to hijack the thread but...

When I was researching 5 and 6 point harnesses about a decade ago, I ran
across a lot of writing about the purpose of the various belts. The
shoulder straps are actually NOT supposed to hold you down; they prevent
your torso from rolling forward in a sudden de-celeration. The
lap/thigh/crotch straps are really charged with keeping you anchored to the
seat. The problem, especially with earlier generation seat pans, is the
geometry of the anchor points isn't optimal. There were a couple of good
technical papers on the topic; they're on an old desktop machine somewhere
around here...

P3

On Saturday, September 7, 2013 11:44:06 AM UTC-4, Dan Marotta wrote:
snip I love my Speed Astir, but there is NO way to tighten the belts

enough to prevent cranial /canopy violent interference at maneuvering
speed

ona bumpy daysnip



Had the same problem with my first LS-6a. The fix I came up with was to
sew

velcro to the shoulder straps such that when you tightened them you could

connect the velcro. They'd stay tight.