From: ZASoars
You made a good decision if you did not come out to fly this
afternoon , or maybe you studied the weather forecast more carefully
than I did.
Firstly thank you very much Larry for towing, without your help we
would not have been able to learn the lesson !
We launched at around 1pm - Pete in the 102 and Todd Herrli and I in
the 103. Cu's were forming in the South and so that's where we asked
Larry to tow us. By release at 2000 agl we still had not reached the
Cu's so we kept on pressing South . By the time we contacted lift we
were about 4 miles from the field but upwind . Lift was marginal to
about 2000 agl (maybe 2400) and the cu's looked raggged .
We drifted back over the field and scratched back to release altitude
but then made the mistake of heading SW to a wisp - which didn't work
. Ask Todd , I'm sure he'll tell you we were OK , but I only kept
trying for lift as I knew there were many good places to land in
harvested fields below. We eventually gave up after 40 minutes below
2000agl.
The lesson - The weather that was moving in was a WARM FRONT and the
lift was broken and unreliable to only a low cloudbase . It clouded
out completely 30 minutes after we landed. Remember it's COLD FRONTS
that bring the good stuff !
Now I see that the weather this weekend is post cold front so it
definitely should be better - come on out and see .
ZA.
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