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5/28/2018

Memorial Day Fun Comp in Fredonia, Kan.

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​photo by Aaron Colby Price
Lindsay Matush: Still coming down off a great weekend at the Fredonia, Kansas Memorial day fun and mentorship comp. Spotty weather got us down for a couple of days but Monday delivered with a 170km flight for the books. Thanks Marc Radloff and Britton Shaw for organizing and Aaron Colby Price for being such a great flying compadre and the pics. Spent most of the day running cloudstreets across the Flint Hills of Kansas. At 5:15 I thought I was on final glide, when I picked up a little thermal being triggered by a tractor in a big brown field. The thermal quickly turned into 6.5 m/s climb (strongest of the day) and I was back at 7200' to eek out another 100 miler. Flatland magic! Thanks to all who made the weekend so much fun.
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Click on the picture below to see the Doarama simulation of the Memorial Day flights from Fredonia Airport.
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5/20/2018

SIV Clinic at Carlyle Lake

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The Toggle Monkeys welcomed SIV instructor David Prentice to the St. Louis area for an SIV clinic May 18-20, 2018.  SIV participants: ​James Hayes, Taylor Holland, Chris Lee, Jim Matush, Lindsay Matush and Grace Stansbery.

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5/5/2018

Missouri XC with James

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James Hayes: my flight the other day, thanks for the tow Jim Matush and the retrieval Lindsay Matush.
http://www.victorb.fr/visugps/visugps.html?track=http://www.logfly.org/Visu/20180507125541796.igc

Not as far as Marcs, or Graces possibly, but was was awesome none the less, slow going on such a light wind day..thermals were really broken up down low (below 3000/3500ft) but pretty solid after that and far stronger. Required lots of patience which is why it took me so long to climb out of the valley from tow. As the day was light and I wasn't in any rush I tried to climb in any lift I found, then follow the cloud streets that were forming. Just before I landed I was pretty tired, I haven't done much thermal flying lately which'll hopefully change, so I didn't want to fight the turbulence and light scrappy lift I was in just before I landed.. was stoked to land right next to the creek for a nice post flight 'swim' (it was so shallow I was more floundering around) haha.
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Also as a side note, I tried using something I remember Dennis Pagen mentioning a while ago regarding thermal triggers. Cloud shadows, as they move across the ground the change in temperature can trigger thermals to pop..I was watching my shadow a lot after pin off and keeping it along the edge of the cloud shadow, it seemed to work as it kept me up.
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Also some of my turns in the thermals are quite shitty, a few reasons.. I'm still getting used to this wing (aspen 4), I haven't done a lot of thermalling lately, once high I was trying to capture photos&vids, as well as trying to practice turning to my weak (left) side.

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