Are you sure he wasn't being tongue-in-cheek? I regularly find that
the best thermals are found on my downwind leg right before i want to
turn on base. Perhaps that's what he meant by the "downwind corner of
the field"

smith

On Sep 22, 6:52*am, danlj wrote:
He did tell the one thing he knew about finding thermals: "The best
lift is at the most downwind corner of the field."