unexpected wave

Steve Seibel

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Jun 22, 2009, 5:20:14 AM6/22/09

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Gary Boggs called me this evening with quite a story-- he was flying his sailplane near Hood River today in strong west winds and good ridge lift with lots of thermal convection, with 2 other gliders-- no one was dressed for or expecting a high flight-- they started finding some signs of wave-- and eventually ended up very unexpectedly with vario pegged at over 2000 fpm up and ended up over 23,000', and very cold. I had some thoughts of going to Hood River today too-- could have been the flight of a lifetime. Glad he got a good one.

Pat Chewning

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Jun 22, 2009, 10:08:55 AM6/22/09

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Wow! That is so cool! Did they have to get special "wave window" FAA clearance to go that high?

Steve Seibel

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Jun 22, 2009, 11:57:37 AM6/22/09

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Yes, they have all that pre-arranged at that location, although in case the pilots had to ask the controllers to bend the rules a little bit since the wave was so unexpected that no one had made the required advance phone call to notifiy the controllers that they might be wanting to activate the wave window.

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