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FlyBC "Site of the Day Archive" - October/2014
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| 10/28-31/14 |
 Agassiz BC Rain. Amount 10 to 15 mm. High 12. It was sunny and warm on Thursday but very windy at Cochrane so no one was flying. The next day I was doing some tree removal at my Mom's farm and it was very cold and foggy, again very windy so no flying there either. Winter is setting in fast here in Alberta.  Richard T sent me this nice video from Mt Cheam from last September, seems so far away now with all the rain. Some Speedflying Action from Soboba, CA - not recommended for beginners for sure . . . the ground is very hard! 10/27/14
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| Agassiz BC Cloudy. 30 percent chance of showers in the morning. High 12. 10/25-26/14
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|  Agassiz BC Mainly cloudy. 70 percent chance of showers this morning. High 13. 10/24/14
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| Agassiz BC Mainly cloudy. 40 percent chance of showers this morning. High 13. 10/21-23/14
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| Agassiz BC Showers ending late this morning then cloudy. High 15. In September 2014, Parahikers Eddy and Kevin set off in the wee hours of the morning to bushwack up the west ridge of Mt. McGuire to enjoy a Fall flight. So You Want To Bushwack! from Kevin Ault on Vimeo. 10/20/14
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| Agassiz BC Cloudy with 60 percent chance of showers. High 16. Good time for reno work indoors though. 10/19/14
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|  Agassiz BC Mainly cloudy. High 19. We arrived on launch at 11 am and it was blowing from the SE and not launchable, but as the sun came out it got better. We waited for Lee & Martin N to come up and show us the air.
I took Ian tandem so he could experience flying a paraglider first hand. He did well on the training hill yesterday but was not ready to solo yet. Tandems are the best way to build the confidence some folks need to commit to a high flight and each tandem is worth 5 solo flights in terms of knowledge transfer. We had interesting winds coming in to land so we headed for a "no winder" at the Pro Circle to save the walking. Ian landed on his feet and ran it into the Circle. We went back up and watched Martin & Lee sky out this time and Eugene launched into the gulley and was going backwards for some time. It was not hard to convince the students that is was too windy to fly for them. All three who launched made the Ranch okay but needed speedbar depite leaving at 1100 metres. Good choice not to fly for the students.
We went for lunch at the Golf Course and it stayed calm there til dark, so whatever winds hit the west did not materialize here. 10/18/14
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| Agassiz BC Mainly cloudy with 40 percent chance of showers. High 19. Then back to the Ranch at 2 pm where we thought it was too windy on launch, so we did more training hill flights on our personal training hill with perfect east winds. Scott was the only experienced student with 2 high flights a few weeks back and he was progressing well on the training hill at was Ian & Carmen (newbies). We decided to go up the mountain at 4 pm when Norm, Bev & Lee arrived, as we now had wind techs! At launch it was slightly cross from the north and maybe too strong for beginner flights, so we sent Lee off to check the air and he was soaring immediately trying to stay out of the clouds at 1000 metres.
Next off was Jeff S who arrived late after a long tour of Savona and back to Woodside when he forgot to check the Site of the Day for where we were (Savona was blowing at 30-50 kph all day). He is flying his new Ozone Buzz Z4 after retiring his Rush I. Then Carmen & I clipped in to do her tandem flight. We were test flying the new SupAir SORA Tandem, and I had not even been able to kite it as we have been so busy with students. It was really cross from the north now, but the SORA inflated nicely and off we went in a light cycle.
Bev decided to fly down leaving Ian in charge of driving down, and he was unsure of how to find the Ranch despite driving there this morning and also from Mission once more. He called me on the phone after I landed saying the Van would not move. What he forgot to tell me is that he let it roll backwards down into the forest! Of course it would not move! We had to get Lee to come back and I attached the Van to Lee's SuperTruck with a big logging chain and I was out in a few minutes. Thanks Lee's Towing Service - first Norm's car in Lumby this spring and now my Van at Woodside. It was now 7:00 pm, so no more flying as it was pitch black, but a beautiful drive down the mountain on a clear night. 10/17/14
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| Agassiz BC Sunny. High 19. Not a total loss as I met Derek who was driving to Salmon Arm for the weekend, and we did some launch maintenance on the Toilet Bowl Launch. Mowing and brush cleanup, so it is much safer for takeoffs now. I also picked up the travel trailer and it is back at the Ranch ready for more roadtrips (ie Chelan next weekend for the Women`s Fly In 2014.) It looks like Kamloops area is getting blown out all weekend, but the Woodside NOAA looks good. I still hate this song! I Believe i Can fly from Surgyo on Vimeo. 10/16/14
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| Agassiz BC Mainly cloudy. 60 percent chance of showers this morning. High 15. Joe dropped by but he thought it was too wet on the ground for his wing. Lee dropped in later and went up and waited on launch but as it shaded over the cycles went the wrong way, so he was denied. The weekend looks like rain in the Valley so I am heading to Savona or Cache Creek for Saturday. 10/15/14
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| Agassiz BC A few showers ending near noon then mainly cloudy. Windy this morning. High 15. Cade test flying the Rapido 9 meter from Ozone, swooping is for experts only! 10/14/14
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| Agassiz BC A few showers ending near noon then mainly cloudy. Windy this morning. High 15. 10/11-13/14
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| Agassiz BC Cloudy with 40 percent chance of showers this morning. Showers beginning near noon. High 16. I met up with Denham & Eileen at the Savona Dump Ridge and delivered their new gear: Ozone Zero 17 & Element II, so they could fly while I worked.
The forecast for the next 10 days looks bad on the Coast but good in Savona, so we will be back for a beginner course next weekend. From a satisfied FlyBC Tandem Client! 10/10/14
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| Agassiz BC Mainly sunny. Fog patches dissipating this morning. High 22. UV index 3 or moderate. Martin & Dale were at the Ranch when I arrived as Derek was heading inland and we hatched a plan to all fly and I would retrieve with Norm's Honda. we were expecting some stronger inflow winds as a front approached the coast, but it was rather North on launch as Martin flew off. Martin hit nothing but trashy, sinky air and he worked some stuff over Riverside but it was not pretty. Dale waited until the clouds cleared and launched in a nice cycle and got "cloud-sucked" into the whiteroom but he got out over the clearcuts and was soaring around when I drove down to retrieve Martin at the bottom.
10/9/14
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| Agassiz BC Mainly sunny. Fog patches dissipating this morning. High 22. UV index 3 or moderate.
One by one the students all flew off with nice inflations and good flight paths and they are all landing unassisted.
Martin N flew in the middle of the day and scratched out 45 minutes landing at Riverside, but otherwise it was very stable and inverted, so great training conditions. Wouter Sighting - Wouter has been flying tandems in Interlaken CH and despite the weather being so poor in Europe this summer he did 380 tandems!
10/8/14
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| Agassiz BC Cloudy. Clearing near noon. Fog patches dissipating in the morning. High 21. UV index 3 or moderate.
10/7/14
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| Agassiz BC Cloudy. Becoming a mix of sun and cloud in the afternoon. Fog patches dissipating in the morning. High 21. UV index 3 or moderate. Nicole, Eileen & Denham started their first flights by 11 am, and we had excellent launching conditions and we had 2 flights done before 2 pm.
We headed back up and launched Denham right after Al and the Element 2 Denham was flying seemed to climb better than Al's Peak 3? After 15 minutes of thermalling Denham headed out to find the wind stronger that he has experienced and he got drifted downwind, but he made the Ranch okay. After that it was too gusty for students and we drove down after cloudbase shut us down.
After 3 am tonight the lunar eclipse happened and I was able to take this shot. Not a SLR unfortunately.
He had recently bought a motorbike and had a small crash that injured his foot and he was recuperating at home. No details of what happened yet. He trained with us in 1999 up in Lumby and we have fond memories of him sleeping under our motorhome and saying "I can hear you!". Carl was fond of acro paragliding and "hike & flying" so he was not seen much at Woodside. His favourite sites were Elk and other sites in the Chilliwack River Valley.
10/6/14
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| Agassiz BC Mainly cloudy. High 21. UV index 3 or moderate. The new Baofeng Radios work pretty good, as I could talk to Kevin as he drove from Chilliwack to Woodside on Hwy 1! We arrived back at the Ranch to hear Kevin saying to Martin N that he must have launched too early. We were expecting strong SW winds today, maybe too strong for students but there was no lift for Martin and he ended up in Riverside. Kevin waited a bit before he launched and then it was all cloudsuck for him, so we waited at the Ranch on the training hill until it mellowed out. Kevin flew out to grab a ride up as it was too thermic for top-landing.
We raced back up for one more sunset flight arriving at 6:30 pm which gave us exactly enough time to fly and land before legal dark (7:07 pm). It is getting dark much earlier but we are enjoying the best training conditions this month! We raced back up for one more sunset flight.
What a great productive day for everyone as they landed under a near full moon before dark. A Higher Point of View from Ozone Paragliders on Vimeo. 10/5/14
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| Agassiz BC Mainly cloudy. 40 percent chance of showers early this morning. Fog patches dissipating this morning. High 22. UV index 3 or moderate. By then Tonya was already hucking Chris off launch so it was flyable. We arrived on launch for the first flights and Colleen took Eileen for a tandem and Denham did his first solo flight. Tsuru has 15 flights from a recent training session in Chamonix so she was ready to fly Woodside. Alex & Nicole were out soaring around and continued to do so until many hours later when they both top landed. Colleen, Denis & I did a set of three tandems at 2 pm when we sent the students for lunch as it looked too rough for beginners (and it was pretty strong +2 m/s or more). It was an amazing day right til dark, which is now happening at 7:07 pm. 10/4/14
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| Agassiz BC Mainly cloudy. 60 percent chance of showers this morning. High 22. UV index 3 or moderate.
Rod was test flying his new Supair Delight Harness and he looked pretty sporty! Dolomites Report - Stefan & Wolfie are in Italy and flying the Dolomites at the Col Rodello site. It looked pretty busy!
Watch for Wouter in this video, I believe this is his home site. 10/3/14
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| Agassiz BC Savona - Mainly sunny. High 15. UV index 3 or moderate. It was calming down through Cache Creek as I headed south. As I drove through Agassiz I got a report from Martin N that they had just flown Woodside with 30-60 minute flights before the clouds shaded them out. 10/2/14
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| Agassiz BC Savona - Mainly sunny. High 18. UV index 3 or moderate.
Sounds of Paragliding from shams on Vimeo. 10/1/14
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| Agassiz BC Savona - Mainly sunny. High 18. UV index 3 or moderate. 9/30/14
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| Agassiz BC Savona - Mainly sunny. High 18. UV index 3 or moderate. Clair & Tim have their campers too and we were staying in the Steelhead Campground roughing it with power & water even this late in the camping season.
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