You'll notice that Quest Air is back as an Oz Report
sponsor/advertiser. Great to have them on board. Of course, they have always
been very supportive of the Oz Report and of hang gliding in general, especially
the competitions and the national fly in.


Maybe they felt that they had better get their ad back in the Oz Report just in
case any one was spreading a little lie that they were closed down. By the way,
the office is now open seven days a week. It used to be closed on Wednesdays,
but there was always a tug pilot on site and on duty. The tug pilots love living
here.


I love living here. Last night we went out to the enclosed pool area and took a
hot tub in the new hot tub. 103 degrees. Perfect. Black night, stars, $5 million
dollar view (in the day time). Great place to bring your trailer and fly.


Rhett Radford is here with his Dragonfly, working on it and soon to get it N
numbered. He's studying for all sorts of tests as an examiner, instructor,
mechanism, etc. for Light Sport aircraft. Flavia is here from Brazil, so is Jim
Rooney, and plenty of skilled instructors and tug pilots. Kevin and Dustin are
here running their cross country clinic.


This was a good day to watch yourself and the forecast carefully. Dr. Jack's RUC
pictures showed spotty lift to 2,700' and the winds 17 knots out of the south. I
had a doctor's appointment for my yearly physical exam (got to check out the PSA)
at 9:45 AM, and when I got out at 11 AM the low cu's filled the sky. It was a
day to be in the air by then, but I had a ten mile bike ride yet in front of me.


With so many spots in the forecast you've got to look at what you actually see
in the morning. The wind was 15 mph out of the south on the ground at Quest,
which is certainly launchable, but you've got to be ready to hold own tight. The
Tjadens broke down.


The cu bases were actually plenty high for this early in the morning and showed
lots of lift. With the wind it would have been easy to head north and hang on
light lift. The bases rose during the day and the congestion didn't happen until
6 PM when the rains began.


It seems like a day that would have afforded long flights, but not record
flights.


The clinic students had a short late afternoon flight before the rains came.