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Slope Soaring / Greetings All

« on: April 02, 2014, 16:06:11 PM »

Thanks Fred,
It's been a looooong winter over here in the oil fields of North Dakota. The last Month has been tough, 60 degrees F one day 6 degrees 2 days later with 4 or 5 inches of new snow. Hope all are well has been fun to look in on your forum, I once again misplaced my password and had to have Fred reset it for me.  Haven't done much flying, no time and one of the guys at my facility ran over one of my RC bags with the skidsteer and destroyed my Hitec multicharger. :evil: wasn't paying attention and didn't offer to replace it so haven't had any way to charge my lipo batteries to even fly my Radian.  Hope to replace that soon and get back into the air. Hope you all are well and look forward to posting some pics of some outings soon. Freedom Flyer. Tracy

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Slope Soaring / New slope sites

« on: May 05, 2013, 07:15:58 AM »

Hey Gents,
Had a pretty exciting day today, I secured permission to fly on some private property today.  I am working about 800KM from home and have been looking for someplace to fly my sailplanes.  I made a phone call about a month or so ago to a local land owner to see if he would allow access to some buttes on his property.  He said that it sounded okay but he would like to meet me and put a face to a name. I went for a drive today and had an incredible visit with this gentleman.  After explaining exactly what my intentions were and assuring him I wouldn't go on the property unless it was completely dry or frozen solid he granted access to 3 different "hills" or "buttes" on his land.  He said that it really sounded like fun and hoped I would enjoy myself, so..... if the wind is blowing tomorrow which it does almost every day here, I will go give it a try.  The best part is it's only about 10 or so Kilometers from my work place and residence out here, and, he said I can drive to the top as long as I don't tear things up as there is no road going to the top of these buttes.
Tracy

This is one of 3 buttes, this one being the farthest west and showing the south facing side of the hill.

same butte, SW side


Same butte West side, kind of small but would work in a pinch.


Same butte, East side


From atop the Farthest west butte looking East to the middle butte, should be able to fly on slopes facing W, SW, S, SE and East.


This is a hill the locals call Grassy Butte.  You are looking at the North West and North sides.  The right side of the hill is facing NW and is about 100 meters wide, the left side of the hill faces directly North and is about 70 meters wide.


This is the North facing slope of Grasy Butte.


This is the SE fascing slope of Grassy Butte.


Another photo from the SE showing the SE and South facing sides.


This is a photo from atop of Grassy Butte Looking West at the east slope of the Middle butte.


This photo was taken from atop Grassy Butte looking West at the other two buttes, All Three can't be more thatn 2 1/2 to 3 Km from each  other.

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Humour / A Cowboy named Bud

« on: February 02, 2012, 04:10:21 AM »

A  cowboy named Bud was overseeing his herd in a
>remote mountainous pasture in California when
>suddenly a brand-new BMW advanced toward him out
>of a cloud of dust.
>
>The driver, a young man in a Brioni® suit,
>Gucci® shoes, RayBan® sunglasses and YSL® tie,
>leaned out the window and asked the cowboy, "If
>I tell you exactly how many cows and calves you
>have in your herd, will you give me a calf?"
>
>Bud looks at the man, who obviously is a yuppie,
>then looks at his peacefully grazing herd and
>calmly answers, "Sure, why not?"
>
>The yuppie parks his car, whips out his Dell®
>notebook computer, connects it to his Cingular
>RAZR V3® cell phone, and surfs to a NASA page on
>the Internet, where he calls up a GPS satellite
>to get an exact fix onhis location which he then
>feeds to another NASA satellite that scans the
>area in an ultra-high-resolution photo.
>
>The young man then opens the digital photo in
>Adobe Photoshop® and exports it to an image
>processing facility in Hamburg, Germany ..
>
>
>Within seconds, he receives an email on his Palm
>Pilot® that the image has been processed and the
>data stored. He then accesses an MS-SQL®
>database through an ODBC connected Excel®
>spreadsheet with
>email on his Blackberry® and, after a few minutes, receives a response.  
>
>Finally, he prints out a full-color, 150-page
>report on his hi-tech, miniaturized HP LaserJet®
>printer, turns to the cowboy and says, "You have
>exactly 1,586 cows and calves."
>
>"That's right. Well, I guess you can take one of my calves," says Bud.    
>
>He watches the young man select one of the
>animals and looks on with amusement as the young
>man stuffs it into the trunk of his car.
>
>
>Then Bud says to the young man, "Hey, if I can
>tell you exactly what your business is, will you
>give me back my calf?"
>bb
>The young man thinks about it for a second and
>then says, "Okay, why not?"
>
>"You're a U.S. Congressman", says Bud.
>
>"Wow! That's correct," says the yuppie, "but how
>did you guess that?"
>
>"No guessing required." answered the cowboy.
>"You showed up here even though nobody called
>you; you want to get paid for an answer I
>already knew, to a question I never asked. You
>used millions of dollars worth of equipment
>trying to show me how much smarter than me you
>are; and you don't know a thing about how
>working people make a living - or about cows,
>for that matter.  This is a herd of sheep.
>
>Now give me back my dog.
>

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Humour / Impending surgery

« on: January 30, 2012, 15:11:42 PM »

Two little kids are in a hospital, lying on stretchers next to each other
>  outside the operating room, the first surgeries of the day.
>
>  The first kid leans over and asks,
>  "What are you in here for?"
>
>  The second kid says,
>
>  "I'm getting my tonsils out, and I'm afraid."
>
>  The first kid says,
>  "You've got nothing to worry about. I had that done when I was four. They
>  put you to sleep, and when you wake up they give you lots of Jell-O and
>  ice cream. It's a breeze."
>
>The second kid then asks,
>  "What are you here for?"
>
>The first kid says,
>
>"Circumcision."
>
>
>"Whoa!" the second kid replies,
>
>"Good luck, buddy. I had that done when I was born.
>
>  Couldn't walk for a year."

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Slope Soaring / Freedom Flyer's sailplane hangar

« on: January 17, 2012, 02:55:14 AM »

Here's a pic of all my sailplanes, someday I hope to have a mouldie or 2 in there.

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Electrics / Freedom Flyer and electrics?

« on: January 14, 2012, 06:35:23 AM »

I've got a couple, one electric sailplane and one coming soon I hope, in the stages of a Multiplex Fun Cub, getting the lights mounted.



This is my Park Zone Radian, didn't much care for the factory graphics so changed it up a little, I have red altitude stripes on the bottom

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Slope Soaring / Hello from the U.S.

« on: January 05, 2012, 15:08:52 PM »

Hello from the U.S.,
     Hope you don't mind a foreigner dropping in.
     What a beautiful place you all live in, I've admired your slopes from afar.  Would be a dream to get there one day and fly on those huge faces. I don't fly anything too fancy, mostly older style built up balsa stuff, have one foamie and hoping to move into the carbon fiber realm at some point. have enjoyed looking through your posts. Freedom Flyer