The Legendary Parowan

Hi all, well we had a pretty uneventful drive across Nevada and into Utah (the land of the Mormon) yesterday, arriving at the wonderful flying site of Parowan in the late afternoon. Pilots continued returning from epic XC flights right the way up until after 8pm.

Today most of them are packing up, as the forecast is for a week of storms. We took advantage of the non-flying weather to install my new LX V7 vario, which I bought from Craggy Aero (great support). It's a beautiful instrument - but doesn't have its own built-in logger so I have sacrificed the butterfly and routed the Flarm GPS signal to the V7. Winpilot also hit the dust as I only have a cable from the C302 (which has gone to Craggy for repair).

All that took most of the day, especially as we had to make a trip into town to find a hardware store that sells metric diameter tubing for the vario (the old tubing was just a cm too short).

Here's a shot of me on the 6000ft altitude airfield, next to the windy Parowan Cliffs - you can run these for many many miles on a final glide to get home from an XC. I look forward to it...