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Flying El Pinion (2014/12/14 2:29:00)
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Flying El Pinion (2014/12/14 2:29:00)
El Pinion launch, n19.0615°, w100.0905° at 7700'msl. It doesn't get much easier than this. Thanks to Jeff at flymexico.com for the shuttling and the glider loan. He makes flying a low stress enjoyable experience for
everyone.
Here is the main landing
zone. It's know as the piano LZ 19.0424°, -100.1046° The lush green grass lulls one into a false sense of sea level, but at 5850' msl and plenty of wind
shadow you have to pay attention.
One flight, I got into the
famous convergence to 10.5k not bad for the middle of Dec. Of course it was better the days I wasn't there ;)
I decided to try and make it
back to to town this day. Conditions were the best I'd had and it was my last day. The water in the lake is way high this season, leaving a very small LZ.
I'd easily have made it on a
topless, and may have possibly made it on this freedom, but the risk was drowning in the lake. I pushed it as far as I could but eventually decided to turn back
and bail into the last brown field to my right. So close !
And what a laughably terrible LZ I picked. Rotor behind the tall trees, tall prickly weeds soft lumpy rutty dirt under. Happy
to be on a Freedom ! Great flight regardless.
execution time : 0.004 sec