Another Nice day

Better than average day. Launched Crestline a little after 2 pm and climbed up right away at the billboard to 7500 ft. Flew east to the turn out and made a few passes before climbing up to 8000. I didn't go to much further east as it was pretty sinky and windy. Got another nice climb back up to 8000 at Pine and flew west to Sugarpine hopping to pick up another one, but it was pretty quiet there. Back over to the billboard for a climb back up to 8000 and a trip back to the turn out. I wasn't able to really find anything over there so I decided to check out the PG guys on Marshall and call it a day.

1 hour and 40 minutes of pretty nice flying. Kim, visiting pilot Bruce, Mark Hoffman and myself out enjoying the day. Tomorrow is suppose to be better.



Today was my last official flight of summer (how I define summer anyways.) Since I spent the last 6 years in college, summers to me started the 2nd week in June and ended the last Wednesday in September.


Summer (June 26 - September 24) Statistics:

*Number of Flights - 85 + 7 bunny hill
*Hours - 102.6
*Consecutive Days Flown - 36


Summer Goals:

*Get H4 rating - Completed August 4th
*Top Land Marshall - August 2nd
*Get a First Real XC Flight - 61 Miles in the Owens valley, September 13th
*Launch "The 750" and Get Up - kind of. I got 200 ft over launch and a 12 minute flight
*Build a Cool camera Boom and Take Some Pics - yup and yup


Other Notable Things:

*Got to meet and fly with Jeff O'Brian
*Got to meet and fly with noman and DayDreamer from up north
*Both of the CSS fly-in events were the best ever. The memorial fly-in was especially great (both the flying and socializing)
*Got a personal best out and back flight the day of the memorial fly-in
*Got 2nd place in the spot landing competition