Need to get out of the cold!!!

[marc 540]

Hey All,
I've been sitting here freezing in Indiana for the past 3 mos. and I need to head south to fly!!! I'm off work the second week in march and I would love to be a guest at a good soaring site!! Maybe Georgia or Florida? (somewhere warm!!) Any suggestions or invite's? I'm not a contest pilot, just for fun. I have an E-BOT and a never flown BOT from a kit and I should have my AVA ready to go by then. I would love some tip's from an experienced AVA flyer!! I mostly fly giant scale gas (11 year's exp.) but last summer I started soaring and love it!! :D

Marc 540 :)

[glidermang]

Marc:

There's a guy here in Las Cruces with a new BOT (electric).

I have no propulsive units whatsoever, beyond an elderly hi-start and my own elderly arm (I fly DLG almost exclusively).

Weather today: gentle South breeze, ambient temp around 70. Yesterday was broken cloud, winds South about 7-10, and I still thermaled my handlaunch out and away for about 5 minutes. Today would have been bodacious soaring, but my wife and I went bike riding around the University campus instead.

I thermalled on Thanksgiving Day, the day after Christmas, and New Years Day and several times since. Las Cruces is the best kept secret in soaring. In addition, I work at White Sands Missile Range, and there are always raptors thermalling. I have taken my glider out at lunch, and thermalled with them, no sweat.

Look up the SAGE (Southern Arizona Glider and Electric) fliers in Tucson - they have a pretty good site West of the city at Marana. There is a great group that flies out of the "Chandler Bowl", a city park in Phoenix. You could attend the big contest in Queen's Creek near Phoenix, in February. Also, go to www.soarabq.org and check out the Albuquerque club - they do something literally every weekend, fly every variety of glider and electric you can name and have a fabulous site to fly from.

Must be all those beans and chilis we eat down here.

Yours, Greg

[schrederman]

So... Greg... I'm going to be in Las Cruces in a couple of weeks. Where do you fly? I don't do DLGs but I can shorten my high start... and I have a 24 oz. hundred-incher that I throw more than I launch...:D

Jack

[Thermaler]

Hey All,
I've been sitting here freezing in Indiana for the past 3 mos. :D

Marc 540 :)

What part of freezing in Indiana? I am doing the same just north of South Bend?

Joe

[Andy W]

Keep in mind, biggest snowstorms are in March and April down here in GA..
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[Ercoupe Ed]

Hi Joe!
Also freezing over here by Ft Wayne.
There's a program on the radio, they're talking about global warming.
Guess they've never been to Indiana in January! :D
I was reading last night that this is the coldest winter in the USA since 1895
It's 12 degrees here, predicted high of a possible 18 degrees today.
It might warm up to 27 degrees by Thursday.

[Jim Deck]

As Ed and Joe have already posted, Northern Indiana's experiencing a terrible winter. So, I built a little balsa RC plane to fly in our church's gym. Flying in a confined space is NOT like ranging out to look for lift. A wall smote my little plane and rekitted it. Fortunately, I'll be flying with the guys at SAGE near Tucson in a couple of weeks when we "snowbird" for a few weeks in Arizona.

[marc 540]

Hey Joe,
I'm in Huntington..Just south of Fort Wayne freezing my a$$ off!!!

Marc 540

[WEB01]

You guys make me laugh... I'm up here in Winnipeg (Winterpeg) in Canada. It's currently -35 F. here. It been like this for the last month and a half. Wanna' come up and chip some ice off my driveway?

[marc 540]

I here you WEB, you have it much worse than I do but the fact is I still cannot get out to do what I love. FLY!!!! I think I'm going through flying withdrawls!! In the summer I usually fly 4-5 day's a week!!

Marc 540

[Ray Hayes]

About 35 minutes from Huntington, IN, this is where I fly sailplanes, this pic was taken last week.



Just kidding.
Ray
Sky Bench
Http://www.skybench.com

[StevenatorLTFO]

About 35 minutes from Huntington, IN, this is where I fly sailplanes, this pic was taken last week.



Just kidding.
Ray
Sky Bench
Http://www.skybench.com


So thats what the field looks like when the trees aren't bent over sideways... :D

[ozmo01]

Hey Indiana crowd,
It is the begining of a nasty ice storm here in OZark, MO. we are slated for up to 2'' of ice here tonight and tomorrow. Our local weather said to count on LONG TERM power outages :censored: :eek: :censored: I am not to freaked, I have a generator. I drive for work and to get home was 20 mph for 62 miles then my car slid sidways in my own drive when I got home!
well, I KNOW I will be building tomorrow! :D

[atmosteve]

Its soo hot and sticky down here in the past week, you can hardly push through the air when you walk and are always perspiring day and night. I'm sick of it, reading about the cold doesn't sound so bad after this hot spell.

The only thing that makes it bearable is a couple of cold showers a day (read not cold, but warm water) I'm buying two big bags of ice and putting them in a bath full of tap water tomorow, and laying in it for an hour till its hot again. The other aid is cold beer, VERY cold beer in the afternoon, it can sit in the ice filled bathtub with me.

On the bright side, the thermalling has been awesome!

[sailfree]

http://www.rcgroups.com/forums/showthread.php?t=972605

[Ercoupe Ed]

Its soo hot and sticky down here in the past week, you can hardly push through the air when you walk and are always perspiring day and night. I'm sick of it, reading about the cold doesn't sound so bad after this hot spell.

The only thing that makes it bearable is a couple of cold showers a day (read not cold, but warm water) I'm buying two big bags of ice and putting them in a bath full of tap water tomorow, and laying in it for an hour till its hot again. The other aid is cold beer, VERY cold beer in the afternoon, it can sit in the ice filled bathtub with me.

On the bright side, the thermalling has been awesome!


Suggestion!!!! Actually a strong suggestion!!!!!
Get some big fans out, aim them for Indiana and leave them on! LOL! :D
Or give us your location, and WE Indiana guys will show up with some sailplanes!
Hot and humid sure beats what we have for weather!

Ed

[ozmo01]

Hey Indiana,
This :censored: :censored: :eek: ice is headed your way! You can keep it.

Build build build :D

[Thermaler]

Its soo hot and sticky down here in the past week, you can hardly push through the air when you walk and are always perspiring day and night. I'm sick of it, reading about the cold doesn't sound so bad after this hot spell.

The only thing that makes it bearable is a couple of cold showers a day (read not cold, but warm water) I'm buying two big bags of ice and putting them in a bath full of tap water tomorow, and laying in it for an hour till its hot again. The other aid is cold beer, VERY cold beer in the afternoon, it can sit in the ice filled bathtub with me.

On the bright side, the thermalling has been awesome!

Lets see hear, hot, sticky, flying and drinking weather compared to A@# deep in snow that has to be shoveled so you can get to the car that may not start so you can drive on a sheet of ice.

WA WA WA WA
I'll trade you in a heartbeat!!!

Joe

[Thermaler]

You guys make me laugh... I'm up here in Winnipeg (Winterpeg) in Canada. It's currently -35 F. here. It been like this for the last month and a half. Wanna' come up and chip some ice off my driveway?

Anything below 60 stinks, I'll chip my own thank you. I don't drive in this crap unless needed and since I have my own ice.....

Joe

[Ray Hayes]

So thats what the field looks like when the trees aren't bent over sideways... :D


Every day ... Monday thru Friday :)



Ray
Sky Bench
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[Aero Antics]

An today we get the snow with icing on top here in sunny southern Indiana. Not much better than southeast Missouri. (my last known location.) It will get better by June hopefully.