Don't be fooled by COLD weather. Yesterday several members met out at Alex to do some maintenance and attend the safety meeting and Duane's award ceremony in the evening. During the afternoon the weather looked somewhat promising despite a strong wind (down the runway).
Despite COLD temperatures (a high of 54 degrees) lift was good and two flights were made in the Grob. Don and Mike Nichols climbed to 6400msl under quite heavily clouded skies. The thing to remember is that cold does not mean no lift - obviously good instability allowed some good soaring. I would estimate a well insulated pilot could have easily stayed up 3-4 hours.
ZA
Wednesday, May 04, 2005
From Low To High
Ron Clarke reports:
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Actually I checked the hourly temp data for Muncie and while we were flying, the ground temp was officially 48.9 deg F. I had looked at a sounding before gg out to the field, and it indicated max lift to 6500 ft msl if the temp got to 52 deg F. So all in all it was pretty close. By the way, the sounding today indicated lift to about 7000 msl. How did it turn out? DT
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