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| September 30 | Bridal Falls Fly-In | clearing, standard lapse rate forecast | 0% Sunday | 160° at 9 knots | Sumas Report - only Rob P and I flew Sumas because it looked weird. Thermals came up the front of launch, followed by down cycles, with the clouds overhead moving from the west? Some small thermals but mostly a bouyant ride down to the LZ - Jim Bridal Report - the fly-in continued at Upper and Lower launches. Lots of American pilots and even some hangies showed up from Aerial Adventures. Everyone convened at the Club House for steaks. Some reports of a European acro-pilot attemting a low level SAT that nearly bounced, getting the wing back flying at 100 feet! September 29
| Bridal Falls Fly-In
| clearing, standard lapse rate forecast
| 40% POP Saturday
| 180° at 8 knots (definitely soarable if this is true)
| Brial Report - we were ever watchful of the jet stream touching down at Bridal . . . but everyone flew and had smooth flights. Some interesting landings (replace your divots), and the fence may need reinforcing after this weekend! About 20 pilots flew from Upper Launch with a shuttle service that involved a 15 minute hike over the decommissioned roadbed. Party at the Club House went on 'til 12:00 am, some of us camped at Lower Launch and had to fly down due to a hangover caused by some bad Ice. The Suburban broke a leg on the way down and had to get towed to Chilliwack, should be driving by the weekend - Jim
| September 28
| Sumas
| clearing
| 60% POP
| 160° at 16 knots (definitely soarable if this is true)
| Woodside Report - Klaus was heading out at noon cause there were CUs over Woodside! - Jim
| September 27
| Sumas
| clearing
| 10% POP
| 130° at 8 knots
| Woodside Report - Rob P and Ian J flew Woodside in mild conditions, scratching out 20 minute flights. There was actually some wind in the LZ when they landing!
| September 26
| Stay Home
| rain all day
| 100% POP
| windy from the SW
| Huge rain storm all day!
| September 25
| Blanchard
| rain starting in the afternoon
| 70% POP
| 180° at 6 knots
| no pireps
| September 24
| Bridal
| Sunny breaks
| 10% POP
| 180° at 6 knots
| no pilot reports, but Rob P. said he bailed on Grouse cause it was blowing east at altitude.
| September 23
| Deroche
| Sunny breaks
| 10% POP
| 180° at 8 knots
| Hemlock Report - Alex R had the flight of the day with over an hour gaining 500 meters over launch on an APCO Allegra, I launched in cross conditions for an extended sled ride after he landed - Jim | Chelan Report - Norm made it home last night and had a great time, he was a dot in the sky, so he did have a great time soaring. He even made the spot landing perfectly. So he was really glad he went, he said he hung out with the Americans. Also Kevin Ault was there and Brent showed up later. So Norm had the better flying than the rest of us it seems. I had a nice sledder from Bridal Upper launch, everything was well organized. That launch is sooo sweet. I did a forward off and all went well in light condition. But I had a good time, everyone else also ahd a great time off of there but again it was just a longer sledder - Bev September 22
| Woodside (changed mid-day)
| Sunny breaks
| 10% POP
| 180° at 10 knots
| Woodside Report - Colleen squeaked out 31 minutes during an ultra-stable day. Many others flew and got 12 minute rides to the proposed LZ - Jim
| September 21
| Stay Home
| rain all day
| 100% POP
| 210° at 13 knots
| Report - It rained all day.
| September 20
| Woodside
| increasing clouds, cloud layer at 11000 feet this am
| 20% POP
| 280° at 6 knots
| Pilot Report - it looked flyable at Woodside but not soarable due to low wind and heavy cloud cover (from a WestJet returning from Calgary over Woodside at 6:30 pm). It sure is getting dark soon! - Jim
| September 19
| Bridal Falls
| sunny periods with 4100 ft cloudbase, good thermal index
| 20% POP
| 280° at 6 knots
| Woodside Report - I hope you all enjoyed working because it was really fun at Woodside
today! - Ian J (Bev saw a bear in the LZ!)
| September 18
| Stay Home
| cloudy periods with low cloudbase, some showers
| 70% POP
| 280° at 7 knots
| Report - ugly, low cloudbase all day. Some showers. Good day to work.
| September 17
| Lil Nick
| sunny periods with low cloudbase
| 70% POP
| 280° at 7 knots
| Fraser Valley Report - it quit raining by 2:00 pm, but the cloudbase was low. No pilot reports.
| September 16
| Eagle
| sunny
| 0% POP
| light and variable
| Eagle Report - the water level on the beach at Harrison Mills across from the Sasquatch Inn is landable now and Colleen tested it. Due to strong westerlies the remaining pilots landed on the road below launch (2-1 glide). Launch is in excellent shape but the road up has deep cross ditches.
| September 15
| Pemberton
| sunny
| 0% POP
| 290° at 8 knots
| Reports of stable conditions were relayed from Pembie.
| September 14
| Bridal Lower
| sunny
| 0% POP
| 290° at 8 knots
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| September 13
| no flying is allowed by Government order
| sunny
| 0% POP
| 290° at 8 knots
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| September 12
| no flying is allowed by Government order
| sunny, some cloud
| 0% POP
| 290° at 8 knots
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| September 11
| Bridal Lower
| some cloud
| 0% POP
| 290° at 8 knots
| A black day for all humanity, I woke up early in Chicago and clicked on the TV to see the first pictures of the World Trade Center being transmitted. At first it looked like an accident, witnesses thought it was a small twin engine Cessna at first. Horrified I witnessed the live video of the second plane hitting the other tower and knew we were watching a war unfold. My heart goes out to the victims and their families. Free flight is banned until further notice!
| September 10
| Bridal Lower
| sunny
| 0% POP
| 290° at 8 knots
| no pireps, but the conditions looked good.
| September 9
| Bridal Lower
| sunny
| 0% POP
| 290° at 8 knots
| no pilot reports
| September 8
| Whidbey Island
| sunny!
| 0% POP
| 310° at 15 knots
| Bridal Report - Colleen said the conditions were sweet. Lots of lift everywhere for 2-3 hour flights, not as windy as forecasted - Jim
| September 7
| Grouse
| sunny!
| 0% POP
| 280° at 5 knots
| Grouse Report - Grouse ended up being real nice after 1:00. That low development we saw cleared. Mike and I did 5 tandems. Also got to see the two new Grizz - Glen Taylor | Woodside Report - some test pilots got 2.5 hours testing the new LZ - Jim September 6
| Bridal Lower
| rain possible!
| 30% POP
| 280° at 14 knots
| no pireps
| September 5
| Whidbey Island
| rain this am!
| 40% POP
| 290° at 14 knots
| Bridal Report - we watched four pilots fly and it didn't look inspiring, strong south winds, very cross at launch, thermals all broken up. After dinner a few pilots were considering Woodside but it may not have happened due to high winds - Jim | Whidbey Report - oddly as strong as it was in the valley, Whidbey didn't turn on until 6 pm so it was a bad call - Jim September 4
| Bridal Falls
| Sunny
| 20% POP
| 270° at 7 knots
| Bridal Report - some pilots elected not to fly at Bridal due to overdevelopment.
| August 31-Sept 3
| Chelan WA
| Sunny!
| 0% POP
| 250° at 5 knots
| Chelan Report - Saturday we had one flight early in the morning before the Butte got blown out, then a marathon drive to Saddle Mountain to watch it get blown out. | Sunday morning we had an unfortunate incident where one of our students lost control of his wing near the Butte and headed out very low and ultimately sunk behind a ridge and got rotored and he impacted the side hill injuring his back. A paramedic team was on scene within 20 minutes and he was airlifted to Wenatchee Hospital, where he was operated on for a fractured T12. He was in stable condition when I left the hospital on Monday afternoon. Special thanks go out to Ian Johnston and JF Paradis who sidehill landed to give aid as they were in the air at the time of the incident. Thanks also to everyone who helped coordinate the rescue. It was a very stressful event for all. |
Aug 2001 Site of the Day archives Mara, Bridal, till some great flights locally
