Saturday, January 11, 2025

January 11,2025

WEATHER
Visibility: clear
Wind: increasing crosswinds
Altitudes:.  3300’
Time Aloft: 0.5 hours
Max Lift: 2-3 kts
Temperature: 60ish
Tow pilot: Julie

The morning started off cool with a slight NE wind. There were some good training flights in both the 2-33 & 1-26. The wind consistently built until it blew a car sized tumbleweed across the runway on the last tow. With that, Julie decided she was done towing leaving Peter sitting in his ASW-20 on the ground. Sorry to everyone who was grounded!


Tuesday, January 7, 2025

Happy New Year

First Flights of 2025

We had a beautiful day on Saturday to kick off a new year of soaring at Avenal!  

After we finished shoveling the snow (OK, maybe not), we got busy flying.  Jim was kind enough to tow.  A number of pre-solo and post-solo students flew, and Julie and Morgan each got some weak weather thermaling practice in XD.  Richard was out, supervising some re-arranging of trailers and glider parts, and then administering some sort of aid to the tractor.  Various other chores got attention.

 All good signs of a quick start to 2025, with a gorgeous sunset to finish the day.

 

 Photo credit to Mark P.