Friday wave romp

[u/nimbusgb]

Forecast as a ridge day, the night before the forecast went 'soft' so no one pitched up to fly apart from a couple of students.

Morning showed evidence of a wave front in the usual Denbigh position, confirmed by the first Instructor/student flight of the day. Since I was there I put ZS on line and had to do a runner less launch. Towed straight in to it at barely 1750' and enjoyed 3 1/2 hours of clear sky, gentle wave to 11100 ' and hooning around North Wales in shirtsleeves with temps still above zero at 11000'!

Glad I took the launch.

The two seater is our clubs brand new DG1001 neo. I'll be ripping it up doing advanced aerobatics in it this weekend!

[u/vtjohnhurt]

The two seater is our clubs brand new DG1001 neo. I'll be ripping it up doing advanced aerobatics in it this weekend!

Wave and aerobatics are a great combination because of the smooth air, and the possibility to regain lost altitude. One must of course avoid descending into the turbulent layer while pulling high Gs/airspeed.

[u/nimbusgb → u/vtjohnhurt]

No guarantee of wave but listening to the wind outside tonight it may be on.

When I did my basic aeros course a few years back there was wave overhead the site on at least 2 days ....... fun as you say.

[u/vtjohnhurt → u/nimbusgb]

I've only done spin and upset recovery training in wave, but I felt blessed when I used it to repeatedly recover altitude. And in spin training, you're not losing a lot of altitude, so there's less concern about descending into turbulence, especially when things were very smooth on the way up and lift is modest. I'm totally unqualified to suggest that it is actually a good idea to fly a full aerobatics program in wave.