Mount Leinster - 28-29th November

[joe]

Good luck today lads. Hope you get some flying in!
Wish I was there  :cry:  :cry:

[Happy Days]

Okay Alan, Fred and Karl recon to be at the slope by about 11.00. I said I’d meet them there.

As for the weather conditions………The breeze has dropped, it’s now dead calm! :cry:  :cry:   Sky is clear with brilliant sunshine, except for Mt. Lienster which is stubbornly covered in thick cloud. :!:

See you at Nine Stones car park……I’ll be there about 11.00

Keith

Oh, hello Joe........didn't know you were still in the land of the living. How's life treating you at the top!

[Alan_Perse]

Ok Keith. See you there.

[Fred]

Annnnnnndddddd Back home !  
Well, that was a really good day at the end !
Bit tired now, more stories and photos tomorrow !

Fred

Joe You are still alive ??   :shock:  

[billscottni]

Tease :?  :?

Imagine making us wait for the pics :x  :x

[joe]

Yep! Still alive. Just a little road weary. Saltlake city Utah today. Look forward to seeing how you got on. Hope the weather holds for tomorrow. It's tough at the top keith but there's a great view!

[Happy Days]

:lol:  :lol: Very good Joe. I thought Salt Lake City was full of morons,……..sorry, that should read Mormons. :oops:
Didn’t think they’d allow drunken lecherous guys like you in there. :lol:

Shame about the wind, or lack of it at Big L. while I was there. Peter seems to have a knack for sniffing out the lift. What was that you said Peter?…“Build ‘em light!”

Karl, You must return when the wind is blowing……….. Your Excel will fly for hours doing all the acrobatics you can think of.  (And some that you can’t! :oops: )

A little off topic but someone was asking today what forecasters I use…..only the free ones! is the answer I think I gave. :wink:   Here are a couple, apart from the usual Met Eireann and Wind Guru.

www.xcweather.co.uk click on a location to see a more detailed forecast


www.accuweather.co.uk type in the name of the town you want to know the forecast for.

I’ve never found any of them to be consistently more accurate than the others, it’s really a case of taking a mean average of them all. :roll:

Tomorrow is not looking hopeful for the Big L. Looks like rain all day, boo hoo! :cry:

 I might pop up there again on Monday. Not forecast to be so windy as tomorrow, but beggars can’t be choosers, ..right? :!:

K.

[billscottni]

Hi Keith,

Have you tried www.metcheck.com or www.windguru.cz I use both and metcheck seems to be reasonably accurate on weather, but not always on timing, weather coming in faster or slower than they predict.

At the end of the day weather forecasting is a best guess  :?:  :?:  :?:


Hi Joe,

Pity you couldn't have timed the tour to coincide with Soar Utah.

[joe]

Didn’t think they’d allow drunken lecherous guys like you in there. :lol:

I'm a sober chivalrous gentleman these days. Perhaps it is your own youth you are thinking of!!  :wink:
Yes it is the heart of Mormon country.

Bill our booking agent seem to have no regard for slope soaring events when booking our tours. Would be kinda difficult thought. We arrived at 11 a.m. and we will roll out about 1 a.m. Not a lot of time for flying. Got to fit a show in there somewhere too!

Had two shows in L.A. Was planning a trip to PT Fermon on the morning of the second but we had to do some press stuff so it didn't work out!  :!:

Looking forward to getting back to "Keith's" slope  :?:  :?  :wink:

[joe]

Just to to confuse things even more. www.theyr.tv   My preferred weather site says the rain will stay close to the east coast tomorrow and not reach Mt Leinster until 11/12 pm. You might even get some flying in after that too as the heavier cloud and rain will be closer the coast!
I hope I'm right. Good luck!!

[Happy Days]

Joe Wrote
"I'm a sober chivalrous gentleman these days. Perhaps it is your own youth you are thinking of!! :wink:  "


Maybe you're right Joe. :?:  Being older than god it was so long ago I can't remember

[billscottni]

That's a bummer Joe, missing out on a site like Fermin.

Think you need a new booking agent who would put your soaring first. Know of a good volunteer

Do you carry a model with you on tour, or just a sim?

[Alan_Perse]

Hi Joe. Nice to hear from you. Hope you will be back flying soon.
Hey Keith. You should not have left so soon. The wind picked up about 30min to 1 hour after you left. There was even enough wind that Fred was able to launch my K8 and I ... err .... managed to crash it  :!:  :!:. But the damage was minimal. It will be easy to repair. Here are some of my Pics. Sorry for the bad light in some of them.
 






And here are two pics of my K8 before it got damaged.




Unfortunately I forgot to take pictures of everyone else's models :oops:  :oops:

[billscottni]

Nice pics Alan,
Looks b***y cold!

Shame about your K8, hope the damage isn't too bad and you'll have it back in the air soon

[Happy Days]

Hey, Alan, sorry to hear the K8 got scratched,   I’m sure you’ll have it fixed soon.

As for me leaving too soon….

In the past I’ve spent hours (or even days) sitting up on Mt. Lienster hoping for conditions to improve, and gone home without a flight and feeling grumpy. :x

Other times I’ve launched in shear desperation, and gone home with a bent plane,  feeling grumpy. :evil:

Now you tell me that conditions improved after I’d left……………how do you think that makes me feel??? :twisted:  :twisted:

I guess I’m just a grumpy old man! :!:

I finished indoor flying this morning at 11.30. Didn’t even think of going up to the slope, it was just POURING with rain. :cry:  

But, Hope springs eternal, and tomorrow is another day……………