Weekend - July 29/30, 2017

[bdg]

I hope that everyone who went to AVON had as much fun as we did at SP this morning. Incredible morning. Light winds. Warm but also a nice sea breeze at times. Good turnout with roughly 10 flyers at the field and some interest from a few people passing by the field. Some great stick time completely soloing for John F as well with some fantastic landings!

Thanks to Andrew for his guidance with the glider and for spotting for me. I had my Radian in the air and there were lots of thermals. I am attaching a quick graph with the altitude vs. battery voltage. You can see when the motor is operating due to the voltage dips and it slowly recovers when the motor is disengaged. I had to force the Radian out of the thermals as it was getting too high.

Hopefully tomorrow will be another great day...!

Brian

[the-mailman]

Avon was fantastic too. Almost no wind. Lots of planes, big and small, gas and electric. Adam and I flew several times. Great field, great time.

[bdg]

GREAT to hear, Bruce. Indeed, AVON's field is one of the best around.

Just wanted found another telemetry reader... but "more of the same". What I like about this graph is that the timebase is in minutes. You'll see that the motor was not turned on from the 5:00min mark. Lots of great thermals. Could have stayed up a LOT longer. Great experience.

[JohnOSullivan]

Very interesting plot.
That's a good thermal when you can climb to 1000 ft from 300 ft. I had a couple of good thermal flights at Avon but nothing compared to Brian's thermals.
Were you going on vario data? The Radian is no slouch on thermalling.