Report - Harris Yesterday (Saturday 7/30)

[David Koehn]

It was a good turnout at Harris and there was good flying also.  Bill V. launched first around 2:20 pm but hit a sink cycle and sank out right away.  I was next, launching at 3:07 and stayed up for the next 4 hours.  I pushed upwind toward South Corning and spent the next several hours playing around over the hills and valleys to the west of Harris Hill. If you want to see where exactly, here are the XContest and Ayvri links:

https://www.xcontest.org/world/en/flights/detail:dave360up/30.07.2022/19:07

https://ayvri.com/scene/7ykxo8yek9/cl698vuvn0001356uwrux0aat

My max altitude was 6260' MSL but I was deliberately staying clear of cloudbase (lots of aviation activity in the area), so base was probably another 500' higher. The clouds were working well and there were even some decent lift lines at times, so most of the time I was over 4000' which made for a fun, non-stressful flight.  By 5:30 climbs were lightening to where the drift/climb ratio was too high for my old Sport 2, so I returned to the ridge at 5:50 just before the start of the smoother evening air.

Ed was on launch around 6:00 but saw me struggling to stay up in sinky N cross, so he broke down and left.  A few minutes later, the lifty air returned and Bill V. launched and had a nice 55 minute flight with mellow thermals to maybe 800' over launch and lifty lines. One by one the rest of the pilots launched. Moritz flew for 40 minutes as did Jim K.  Before launching himself, though, Jim helped get Zach launched and Zach had his second ridge soaring flight (the first being a short one at Harris the previous evening, which Jim also helped him with).  Zach flew for 20 minutes in his Falcon and eked it into the LZ just past the tall corn.  Way to go Zach!  If there is to be any future in this sport of HG, it is going to be from enthusiastic young people like him, with the help of patient, knowledgeable mentors like Jim.  Thank you, JK!

According to Jim, sometime in the afternoon Tim L. flew and had 18 minutes and Rick B. had 5, but they had both left before the evening air.

[Air Ed]

Patience is a virtue.

[James Kolynich]

Another great flight Dave!

Thank you for the write up.

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[Wings-Aron Lantz]

Sounds like a great day was had there at Harris!  Congrats on the flights and mentoring efforts.

I would have been there but I was already committed to fly at High Rock in Maryland.

Here are some pictures of this unusual flying site...called High Rock.  It is a high rock and a cliff.

Let's fly soon!

Aron

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