Mike hooked me up with Dwayne lives in Ft Worth, a friend I hadn't seen in four plus months from the airpark for a ride to the field. The day was supposed to be South Southwest light with high cloud base, but as we drove the 74 miles we watched some scattered showers and out ran run as well. The field was set up by Mike and Dave by the time we got there for southward launch, but as we talked we noticed the winds switched to the North. Now the wind wasn't even established 1 mph but had a few 3-4 mph gusts in it. We decided to launch a few experienced personnel to find out the winds, they were steady and buoyant. The wind stayed at less than 1 mph for about 1 hour so we worked with students 3 PG 1 HG ground handling and those who were ready for tows we got a few in with know trouble. Mike and I noticed a little stronger persistent wind so after addressing it with Dave we switched around for northbound launches (takes about 30mins).
The rest of the day was pretty much the same as earlier, although I did pickup the ww225 and fly it twice( (normally fly the ww195). I'm at the lower range for the 225 wing and I seem to float around like a leaf. First launch sucked no wind into a sink cycle, the 2nd was more pleasant with a 600' release (not bad for little wind) and bobbed around for about 5 min and landed.
Pretty much it for the day.
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