Palomar October 28th Fly-in Report
The SDHGPA Fall Halloween ICARNAVAL Fly-in's location was changed from Horse to Palomar due to all weather models forecasting NE winds out at Horse. This set in place some late logistic gymnastics for the large Fly-in. We are super thankful to all those involved to make this switch possible including the Pala Tribal Counsel for squeezing the approval in to their agenda the day of their meeting.
It turned out to be a beautiful day at Palomar on Saturday, the day of the fly-in. About 60 PG pilots along with two HG pilots (Erick and Rich) flew. Scott set up but had an aileron problem and ended up tearing down.
A few pilots struggled up and down a bit. However, most everyone had multi hour flights, getting between 2,000' and 3,000' above take off. Landing conditions were very nice, maybe 7 mph and parallel with the highway from the NorthWesterly direction. That makes for a long and level usable runway.
Winds on launch were light with mostly pure thermal conditions cycling in. This made launching conditions at times quite challenging due to the light base wind being overpowered by prevailing thermal activity creating thermal blocking on launch.
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- the Masquerade Flights -
Some Great Costumes on the Ground & in Flight
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Costume Award Winners:
- Grand Prize: Kim Fyi-UN Missile Test Launch: Kim McJong-un
- Most Daring: Tigger 80s Crop Top gone bad: Ira Hayes
- Most Original: Fake News Newsy: Moises Bada
- Scariest / disturbingly creepy: Tux Morph - Aaron Price
- Most Creative: Speed Racer & the Mach 5 : Steve Rohrbaugh
Other Contest Winners:
- Spot Landing Tandem: Phil Russman & Dave Metzgar
- Spot Landing: Mike Lester
- Fastest Sled & Flying as a Rocker: Eddy Borysewicz
- Bomb Drop: Brian Stiber
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All in All a Great time:
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Gary Earl was at the Pauma Casino for the afternoon and came over to shot some great photos after seeing us in the air by chance and has been kind enough to share.
Steve R also uploaded over 150 additional photos to those shot by Gary to following Gallery for viewing & download: https://photos.app.goo.gl/I3Gsl4IPMvrViD8d2
Again, A Big Thank You to all those that helped out to make this Fly-in possible including the Pala Tribe & Roberts Ranch for allowing us to enjoy their great site especially with that late notice of our site change.
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