Anybody else going nuts waiting for good weather?

[StevenatorLTFO]

2 degrees here today, winds out of the North West at 30 gusting to 40, windchill is negative 20 somethings......

To steal a quote from RCA videos... I just wanna fly!!!

Time to break out the Sim for a couple hours I guess.....

Steve (who is trying to stay away from certain threads......)

[Batmanwpg]

Try -46 deg C with wind chill here! :eek: :eek: :eek:
Called build season here!

[StevenatorLTFO]

Thats mighty cold. I'd build, but my shops not heated or airconditioned :(

[Hossfly72]

Hmm, 65 degrees. NE wind at 5-10mph and the wife is sick so I'm playing nursemaid and babysitter... And all I can think about is doing a little sloping and I'm surrounded by flat land! Oh well, I guess the grass is always greener (probably needs cutting too!) LOL

[Daryl Perkins]

Steve,

It's forecasted 76 degrees, wind calm here today. I'm going to go play with my new meathook and shoot a few. Might even be some air popping.

I don't know why you guys live there... move to the light!!! ;-)

dp

[jtlsf5]

Sigh, mid-high 60's this weekend, light to no wind, thermals galore in Davis. This beats my dark age period living in Michigan and Indiana. Like DP said, "go to the light..."

JT

[tonyestep]

Last year at this same time I posted a long whining complaint about this and Daryl kindly sent me a note of condolence along with some pictures he took of his boat outing that weekend, complete with bathing beauties. Meanwhile I was shivering my butt off here in the frozen prairies.

But yesterday there was a brief warm front, and five of my buddies and I flew, and in four launches I had three huge thermal flights, right in the middle of Feb. Today the wind chill is 4 degrees. So I guess the moral is, if you get a chance, take it!

[StevenatorLTFO]

dp and JT don't have much pity for us midwesterners LOL

[Bryan Quick]

Steve,

I don't know why you guys live there... move to the light!!! ;-)

dp

Not much duck or goose hunting there. The dog would hate it.

BTW- We've had snow on the ground since Thanksgiving. I don't usually bring a towel during the summer when I fly.

[Captain Canardly]

I have reserved Halloween through Easter as the Building season, with a few weeks of setup/ sit time( you always find something when the bird is 'ready to fly' needing} with a Memorial Weekend flight opener! I have 6 degrees, 25 mph winds, and a fresh stack of ribs to cut!
Johnny

[Batmanwpg]

Some times I wonder why I don't "Come to the light" but our summers are great and it makes you appreciate them when they finally show up! Besides if it were nice out all the time I would probably never get anything built :D

[Tappet]

Flew here (Northwest Florida) yesterday and it was partly cloudy and only 77F.

Tap

[seanpcola]

Yep, What Tap said. We flew yesterday and today ALL day. Excellent thermal conditions. For you guys in the frozen North though, here is something to make you feel better: Even though I work outside every day of the week, mid-July- Sept. can be a :censored: to fly in. I know it gets even hotter in other parts of the country but when you have weeks of 105 heat index and almost 100% humidity it can get gruesome. When I was younger I never thought about it but over the last few years I just don't enjoy flying when sweat is streaming into my eyes and onto the Tx. Also with the humidity and overall heat it's like the air is stagnant, no lift really just hot thin, wet air. I have just about gotten my routine down to doing major building in the hottest summer months, sort of a reverse schedule to you Northern boys. Feel better?? :D

[schrederman]

Well... Yesterday has about 60 with about 8 mph south winds... would have been a great day except for a wing fold...:(... What the heck, good weather and good friends, it was still a great day...:)...

Jack

[OVSS Boss]

68 dregrees in the Wapakoneta HS gym. New of adventures of foam in space, only nearly hit hard dozens of times.

Marc

[StevenatorLTFO]

Next weekend, our club (SOAR) is going to rent a soccer dome for a few hours to play with some light park flyers, helis n such, that should be big fun.....

But I want to put my sailplane up on a winch.....

BTW: you southern guys are cold hearted, telling us about 60 - 70 degree perfect sounding flying days LOL

Steve

[Hossfly72]

Mobile, Alabama hit 70 degrees today with wind variable at 4mph. Not a cloud in the sky, only thermals and birds, and one little ol' Skeeter.. It was a good day!

[Steve Boone]

I have to agree with you Steve, the weather just sucks at this point! I did however manage to finish a Gambler AG today. I have a Skeeter that I'm just about done putting a new built up tail on so it can handle micro gear. An extra Spirit wing I flattened and added ailerons and flaps to. It just needs hinged and koted. Also, I'm going to make another pod and boom set for it. Working in the shop gets me through the winter but just barely. That being said, I WANT TO GO FLY SOMETHING!!!

Steve

[aeajr]

2 degrees here today, winds out of the North West at 30 gusting to 40, windchill is negative 20 somethings......

To steal a quote from RCA videos... I just wanna fly!!!

Time to break out the Sim for a couple hours I guess.....

Steve (who is trying to stay away from certain threads......)


OK, that is one day, but it isn't like that all the time. I have been flying at 7 degrees and 20 mph winds. Terrific slope soaring weather it was.

[prodjx]

Man it was tough staying up for an hour or more and letting a new guy fly both my glider's, and then there were the hawk's to formate up, gee I can't stand it when that happen's and then they close the hill so the local inhabitant's can get a break from the mobile ghetto blaster's about 6pm oh well I guess I'll be able to stand it until next weekend oh let me tell you abouit sat........zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.Nytol.Dave.

[Thermaler]

A pox on you southern fliers!!!!!!!!!!!!! ;<) JT, the dark ages? More like the Ice Ages when last you were here ;<) DP, the light is there for all of us, we just like to see green instead of white and our breath at the field.
Maybe a pox on you big city folks with an indoor site availible too!!! ;<) I could have flown Saturday but had to work from 11-4 #$^@*(( in the building next to the small field I can fly 2m at.
It is -3 and the wind is howling at better than 25 mph for a windchill of -15!!!!!!!!#%&*##$$#@
Shop is 72 degrees, Europa spars are almost ready to go in the cores, secret project foul up has been corrected.
Falcon 880 #2 has been stripped of it's old covering and ready for a new coat I mean new monokote, I'm the one that needs a new coat.
My Super Esprit is waiting to see the sky again as is Falcon 880 #1. My Grand Esprit has four wing panels waiting to be made into 2 and covered.
None of which is stopping the thermaling DT's.
I am waiting to see Dave H. and his Victor again, I'll get you yet. Steve B, hope to see you there. I hope Tiz, Jack, Jim, Bob and the afore mentioned flying buddies are staying warm.
Come on global warming!!!!
I hope they are right, the northern part of the country is supposed to get warmer and the warm parts are supposed to FREEZE, HA!!!!!!
Now were did I put the 100 proof antifreeze called Rumple Minze, better yet the 151!!!
Joe

[Steve Boone]

You'll be seeing me for sure. I'm still waiting on a Spirit 100 ARF but I have plenty of others to bring with me to fly. I'm really looking forward to it. I want to get started on my LSF qualifications.
I used to fly in the winter but my health doesn't allow for too much of that any more. Last time I went out for a long winter fly it did something to me. Now I can't seem to get the frost color off my beard. :D

[rdwoebke]

Steve,

I know I have it a little better down here, but I have thought this winter was pretty mild. The prior weekend (before the crazy storms), for example, my mother in law was in San Diego and it was actually warmer here then there. I have flown on 16 different days in 2008. I'll be flying today after work again.



Maybe a pox on you big city folks with an indoor site availible too!!!

Joe,

Check into indoor gymnastics places. Not quite as big as an indoor soccor field, but should be big enough for some fomies. My duaghter just started gymnastics and I keep thinking the place she goes to would be perfect for some fun indoor.

Ryan

[rdwoebke]

I'll be flying today after work again.

OK, perhaps I should have flown at lunch... I did not know it was going to start snowing this heavily at 2:00. Perhaps it will let up and I'll get a flight in.

:)

Ryan

[TheNightowl]

Yes. Scraped 1/8th inch of ice off my car this morning from freezing rains overnight. Getting really tired of the cold and wet and wind.

[ejett]

Thankfully, no. We had great weather this last weekend. I flew both days.

If you are still having bad weather, I'm sorry about that.

EJ
Athens, LA

[Phoebusflyer]

Saturday, 71 degrees, wind light at 8 to 12 mph. BOT had several very good thermal flights. Can't wait till April, when the full scale come out to play!

[Jim Frahm]

If you can't beat'em, join'em. That's why I'm driving 1400 miles from Spokane Washington to Phoenix AZ for the SWC 2008. If the good weather won't come to me, I'll go to it....

See you in Phoeniz!

JSF

[hogfarmer]

I don't know why you guys live there... move to the light!!! ;-)

dp

No thanks! Last time I was in Lake Havasu it was about 110 degrees and only got down to about 90 that night, makes it hard to sleep and there is no escaping the heat if you are outside.

Its cold here now but we already have had over 400 inches of snow and its still coming, plenty to keep me busy. Plus now days they have this stuff called down and gortex, makes it easy to keep warm. :p And in the middle of the summer we might see a high of, oh... say 85. ;)

[Thermaler]

Joe,

Check into indoor gymnastics places. Not quite as big as an indoor soccor field, but should be big enough for some fomies. My duaghter just started gymnastics and I keep thinking the place she goes to would be perfect for some fun indoor.

Ryan

I don't mess with foamies, besides the only thing around my neck of the woods is the Notre Dame Joyce Center aka "The Bra". Too much basketball (Go Lady Irish, BOO mens team) this time of year and ND booted us off the fields for socceer and parking lots. My Dad flew there when he was a boy but nobody can now.
Being an Indiana fan (since 72') keeps me away from there also, unless IU is in town to kick their butts. After the last time ND doesn't want them back to get another :censored: whooping. :eek: :D :) :rolleyes:

Joe

[prodjx]

3 weeks ago on "A" mountain I was sloping in the rain, but the wind was straight in from the south at least 10-20. It drissled 3 time's in the half hour I was up. Dave.

[rdwoebke]

I don't mess with foamies,

Gocha, wouldn't want to stoop to that level, would we?

:rolleyes:

You should be a Purdue fan then. Purdue lets folks fly Sunday mornings at their "armory". That place is big enough for non foam indoor stuff.

;)

I did fly yesterday in a kind of sleet pelting thing. Decided after about a minute it was not so fun so I landed and headed home.


Ryan

[Hossfly72]

Some of the best flights I've ever had were in snow (up in Nashville, not here). Made it easy to see where the "up-air" was. But it was a wee bit chilly at 7 degrees F in a 15 mph wind on top of a dam! As soon as I get the munchkin awake, we'll be heading over to re-test fly the newest addition to the household. But it's about 65degrees F today with a light wind and high, thin clouds. Ah, I love the Gulf Coast... except during a hurricane!

[Steve Boone]

Today brings more of the same. Cold and windy. :( I finished the Skeeter's tail last night. The Spirit wing will get finished this weekend if my last servo comes in. Now all I have to do is build the pod for my pod & boom Spirit. If my saw ever gets back from warranty hell I can get back to the Turkey Vulture. A month to replace the switch on a new saw is rediculous! Next time I'll just buy the thing and do it myself. I may have to build the Sophisticated Lady to keep from going crazy. The Spirit 100 won't be in until the end of next month so I have plenty of time.

[David Forbes]

We'll get ours in August when it's 98 in the shade and 98% humidity between hurricanes. But for now life is good....
Dave

[AMBeck]

I was up in Northern Va. last Friday and the weather was great, short sleeves and sun glasses. Lift was spotty, but at one point I shared a big, weak thermal with about 50 buzzards. What a great flight! When I left Saturday morning, snow flurries were blowing by.