Saturday was brutal. I thought it summer, are you sure it’s mid-March? Temps were in the high 80’s. Wind was non-existent and it was pretty dusty. The wind had us running us around the hill. At one point we had a group on the West side, the NE bowl and SE bowl at the same time. The wind, or lack thereof, caused everyone to search for the side with the most thermals. Ultimately all the groups ended up in the SE bowl by day end.

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Wind was just like we love it, 15mph with 20mph gusts, straight into the SE bowl. Had a great time ripping around the slope and bowl. I counted over 20 grinning flyers up top.
Afterwards we headed down to the Peachtree for our usual lunch. To our dismay found it had closed. I guess we have to find another post flying lunch hangout.

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Had a North wind this weekend. It was about a 15mph breeze, so the slope was working great. We were flying the NE bowl, which was good and bad. The bowl made the lift better, but the power plant out front caused the wind to be very turbulent close to the ground. We were disrupted a couple of times by a light rain that came through. Actually, they were more like rain squalls coming in from offshore. Overall it was a pretty good day.

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Sorry no blog, last week. I was out on vacation in New Orleans, doing the family thing. For my first weekend back, flying time was short. Rain was predicted at 80%. Fortunately we had less rain then predicted, with a shower in the morning and one quick shower just after lunch. The wind was good, out of the East. Great for heavier slope stuff. One of our “Old-timers” Ben came down for a visit. He had his two Filips 400’s to test out (slope and electric versions). He got them both out and off the slope, but both had some roughish landings and will need some TLC.
Mike

PS ---One our members is on the sick list. Mark A just had some eye surgery, but came out OK.
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