THE EGG IS HERE:

Gliderport: Air Sailing, NV

As of: Sept. 22, 2011

Confirmed: Sept. 22, 2011

Pilot: Leon Edling

Egg is ours! (Air Sailing)
Pass the word--Air Sailing is once again the home of the PASCO Egg. I was close to 16000 at Sierra Butte and was overhead Williams at 3000 ft. [sent From Lee's Droid X]

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Previous Capture:

PASCO EGG Captured from ASI 9-10-11

Date of Flight: 09/10/2011

Pilot: Ramy (TG)

I flew today from Williams to Lassen and more, and landed in airsailing to capture the egg. Currently enjoying their annual banquet and great hospitality.
Will try to fly back tomorrow. Ramy (TG)

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Previous Capture:

PASCO EGG Captured by Air Sailing from Truckee

Date of Flight: 09/04/2011

"Blackhawk (Lee Edling) recaptured the egg! And he got #31 OLC flight doing it even tho that was only part of his flying because he had to land at Truckee to get the egg."

 

Also posted on the SoaringNV blog: Text copied below:

Ha! Take that you Truckee glider pilots! Now you can look at an empty cabinet and wonder how the PASCO Egg is doing in the care of another gliderport!

This morning Chukar was nice enough to tow and free me up for an egg run. Hey, if nobody else would do it...

I called Samantha at Soar Truckee to make certain the egg was still there, and it was. The Ventus and I made it into the air and stuck around Warm Springs Valley for a while until it cooked some thermals--6J was already underway. An egg capture requires a flight of at least 100km, so I went to Tule Lake and then to 7990 before heading for Truckee. I got up to around 14,000 feet at 7990 (Stateline Peak) and had no problem heading down on the west side of the Petersons. There was virga in the area, mainly to the west, but there were plenty of cloud bottoms free of virga. Truckee, as always, is a beautiful place to fly around. The AWOS gave winds favoring runway 19 so all was normal on the landing and I pulled off on the diagonal to the left (zoom in with the Google Map set to satellite on the OLC and you can see it).

The crew there was great. Noy and Maddie towed me to the ramp. I went in and Sam gave me the egg and had me sign the Truckee SOP for 2011. I filled out a tow request form (they are handed to the tow pilot). Jan was getting ready to take off with a student in a 2-33 and I got to say hi to him.

Then it was back in the Ventus and I was staged on the side of the runway at about a 30 degree angle. When you are ready the tow plane takes the centerline and you don't get to the centerline until after the tow has started. It takes a little rudder work to turn your ship down the runway while you are gaining speed on the ground.

The Pickle (their green tow plane) took me to a golf course southeast of the airport and I released at about a couple of thousand feet agl. I worked up to the east and got over the hot rocks (the normal release point I remember using at Truckee). Then there were some thin clouds leading to a larger cloud at Mt. Rose, so I followed that route and got high on Mt. Rose before heading north.

As I got north of Verdi Peak the clouds were still working but there was a blue space as I launched towards Frenchman Lake where there were dark bottomed clouds. Just like in a bad dream, as I got there, they all died and I headed for 7990 and Tule without much luck until getting to Tule.

David Prather in 6J had been at Tule above 15 not too much before me but it was falling apart and I headed for first lift and NexRad. There was a line of clouds going south out of Nixon and I connected to that street and made it almost to Yerington before deciding I didn't want to land out with the pilots who couldn't get back into Truckee. A few areas of lift on the way home allowed me to cruise at 80 plus knots on final glide.

The sun was low enough when I landed on 35 that I was in shadow. Kite, 6J, and Falcon came out to help me park Ventus 3 and Bear licked me before I got out of the cockpit.

Here is an OLC page that shows my two flights for the day--the shorter is the flight to Truckee:

On 123.3 at the end of the day, it was the same old story. Many of the Truckee pilots were trying to figure out if they could make it home. Some did and some had to land at Minden, Carson City, and Dayton and wait for tows. DoDo was low near Sierraville in 1CH before that but dug his way out, so it was fun listening to his progress.

Then, there was a voice on the radio: "Air Sailing has the Egg!"

I confessed that we had it. How does the word get out?

Then the voice said, "I'll come get it tomorrow."

We'll see! - Lee Edling

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PREVIOUS CAPTURE:

PASCO EGG Captured from Air Sailing 08-27-2011

Date of Flight: 8/27/2011
Pilot #1: Morgan Hall
Pilot #2: Julie Butler

PASCO EGG CAPTURED from Air Sailing

Flight Time: 6.1
Glider Type: Duo Discus ID: 5H
Capturing Gliderport: Truckee
Losing Gliderport: Air Sailing

REPORT:

After a morning of rain and wave like conditions the sky filled in with nice cu and a brisk 18mph+ SW breeze. Julie and I launched and pinned off into a 9knot thermal straight to 12k and were off to the races trying to catch Buzz and Darren to the North.

We chased hard past Ravendale and decided to run the Warner Range to Oregon, thinking we had enough time to battle the headwind home. We were wrong. Turning at the north end of Goose Lake we got slow in dwindling clouds for the first 40 miles. Then things improved to the south end of the Warner Range. We had to jump east towards Gerlach to another line of clouds as it was blue between Ravendale and Truckee.

We squeaked around the corner and into Thule peak north of Air Sailing and ridge soared it up to 8400 or so then pressed south to the Dogskins but couldn't find a good climb in the late afternoon. Others were reporting wave west of Stead, but we couldn't get to it. Decided after a few attempts that Air Sailing was the best choice.

Lee and Larry greeted us and helped us tie down the glider. They hooked us up with food and bedding and were thrilled to see someone come in to take the egg. I'm sure Lee will have it back in a day or two.

For now it is in the case at Truckee, awaiting the next capture.

~ Morgan Hall, 8/29/2011

 

 

Plans for the PASCO Egg Pages:
(content under construction - still)

1. "Where Is the Egg" current location of the Egg and date of capture (done - above)
2. Link to the PASCO Egg Rules (done)
3. A Link to the Egg Flight Report Form for pilots to submit reports. (done)
4. A Link to the "Egg Capture Flight Logbook" - a list of all the flights (planned 4Q2011)
5. Links to Egg Capture Stories - if a story link is submitted. These stories will most likely be on individual or club websites (as they are reported), but can also be hosted here. (planned 4Q2011)
6. Links to Egg history files (possibly in 2012 - if time permits)