Sat 1/26

From: Chris
Activity_Date:       
Remote Name: 209.144.103.216

Comments

I guess the report writing job got delegated to me so here it is:

Benson, Ron, Tom P, Mike, Bruce and I headed for the chief at 10:30. 99.999% could cover so we all expected a sledder and the cycles at launch were weak to say the least. Tom wind dummied, crawled down the spine, and managed to hang on at TP.....Barely. Benson and Bruce followed doing the same as Tom. Mike and I flipped a coin for driver duty and Mike lost so I bailed off next. The cycles were improving but not by much. I managed a few 360s near launch level but ended up losing 50 feet each turn. Being able to hit 1.0 min sink rather than 1.2 would have made a big difference. So off I went to TP followed by Ron. The day was slowly improving and we were all able to get up around 4k but with 5 pilots in such a small space it was a little hairy. Benson was the first to head out and after an hour of bouncing around in the human lava lamp I bailed out too. Ron, Benson, and Tom hung on for almost an hour more. Impressive results for a day that looked so exceptionally poor.