Actually Jim, I think that Nome you fly should be quite visible at 1,320
feet, of course given the angle you would have to be even further away to
equal a 1/4 mile radius circle. But still that should be sufficient to
still see the stabs. I know TK say's if you see the stabs it is only so
high. We were even more than so high at the FRU, awesome weekend for
soaring. Was amazing how far and spread out the lift was, it was tough to
cover the field when it was a 1 mile diameter circle. That still didn't
keep many pilots from hooking up and ridding that thermal out of sight, and
sometimes it was only 1 or 2, burying the whole group, ouch.
Steven Meyer
SOAR
LSF IV
At 02:15 PM 10/7/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
My error - in my post about flying a circle, I meant a 1/4 mile diameter
circle not 1/2. Geezers my age couldn't see the plane well enough at a
1/4 mile radius. Sorry about the poor proofreading. It's still awfully
fast and as Chuck Anderson points out, the ensuing kinetic energy is
really scary.
Jim Deck
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