Big dust devils, Amazing clouds!!!! Strongest climb! Atos VQ Race 7-6/23 / 150 FAI

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Started with a long slow tow (turns out downwind) then found one of the strongest, yet smoothest thermals after releasing. Kept waiting for it to get nasty but never did. Fast climb to 12,600'!!! As the day went on, conditions slowed down. Beautiful sky to enjoy. Wind picked up for landing, thought it was a big cycle that would stop, never did I landed short :-(
Really nice 150 mile FAI. Thanks for the tow!!!!
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@user-bj3zo3tl5d 18 часов назад

Auh, the days of platform towing. Your flight brought back some fond memories of our tow road here in Oklahoma. Seeing those dust devils from the air was very nice as well. Thanks for bringing us along with you on this flight!

@MikeBomstad 15 часов назад

Thats great! Glad to take you along. Bet you had some great flights there. Gotta love the dusties! Thanks for the comment and watching :-)

@markmark2080 4 месяца назад

Being an old geography buff and having never visited the Grand Coulee region, it was wonderful to see it from the air and track your progress on google earth. This makes one appreciate how far and fast migrating birds can fly, also the dust devil views were great. Thanks so much for posting.

@MikeBomstad 4 месяца назад

I am glad to share the experience. I'm happy to hear you enjoyed it. Yes, birds are very incredible, so much more efficient than we are. And the dust devils out there are truly amazing. The dust is very fine particles, so it's picked up very easily by the thermals..... and my socks LOL

@donatopuca2737 4 месяца назад

Beautiful fly contest...dust devil.. cumulus...ciao from Italy.

@MikeBomstad 4 месяца назад

Happy to hear you enjoyed! It was a very fun day

@Alohakurt 5 месяцев назад

Hell Ya! Well done! I remember climbing to 10,000 and wasn’t prepared/dressed for it. Just about froze. After 2 hours it took me 1 hour to get down. The lift was everywhere.

@MikeBomstad 5 месяцев назад

Thanks! That's always how it is, fight to get up, then when you want down, the lift is abundant! An under dressed pilot will always get the highest :-)

@lessainsbury8508 5 месяцев назад

No better way to start my day than watching an awesome video of yours with my morning coffee. At first I thought this was a 150km flight till I realized it was miles ( 241.5 km ) Loved the part with you and the sailplane. Spring won't come soon enough !

@MikeBomstad 5 месяцев назад

Hey! Glad you enjoyed it! Yes, its a rare treat to get to thermal with them. Really adds to the memory. You are right, it need to hurry up and get here!!

@slyfly86 4 месяца назад

amazing flight and vidéo! congratulations from france!

@MikeBomstad 4 месяца назад

Thank you for the comment. Glad you enjoyed! Cheers

@FlyPhiGuy 5 месяцев назад

Great flight and another beautiful video. Thanks!

@MikeBomstad 5 месяцев назад

Hi, Glad to take you along. Good to hear you liked it. Thanks for watching and the comment .

@BrilliantDesignOnline 5 месяцев назад

I like the ones where you have to brush your teeth after climbout from all the dust in the thermal :--) Praise to the great vacuum in the sky.

@MikeBomstad 5 месяцев назад

I know what you mean, you land and someone asks you if you fell in a mud puddle 😁

@nathangrimes641 5 месяцев назад

That looked like fun! Nice flight.

@MikeBomstad 5 месяцев назад

Thanks!

@metielking 5 месяцев назад

Sweet! 13 knot thermal is incredible. You can really core the thermal in your hang glider!

@MikeBomstad 5 месяцев назад

It was a really nice thermal. Kept waiting for it to get nasty never did. Might have made me a bit more nervous then if I did get some rowdy

@chrisdrake7849 4 месяца назад

Cool flight.

@MikeBomstad 4 месяца назад

Thanks!

@sergio.napolitano 5 месяцев назад

Que hermoso vuelo !!

@MikeBomstad 5 месяцев назад

gracias, feliz de compartir. Me alegra que hayas disfrutado

@OneEclecticStyle 5 месяцев назад

Great day out Liked seeing you up there with the sail planes !!!

@MikeBomstad 5 месяцев назад

Yes! Always fun to get to fly around them. You never get to see them again when they go on Glide

@nikosjasonfakaro9187 5 месяцев назад

SWEET !!!

@MikeBomstad 5 месяцев назад

👍😁

@tomthompson7400 5 месяцев назад

thats spectacular .

@MikeBomstad 5 месяцев назад

It was indeed! One of those days😁

@tomthompson7400 5 месяцев назад

@@MikeBomstad yep , it certainly looked like a day to remember ,,,

@MikeBomstad 5 месяцев назад

Fingers crossed for more this season!

@Ziogustin 5 месяцев назад

Spectacular..👍

@MikeBomstad 5 месяцев назад

😁 it was a fun day

@MarkARebuck 5 месяцев назад

At 6:30, are you turning the opposite direction of the sailplane? Isn't that a HUGE "no-no"?

@MikeBomstad 5 месяцев назад

We were not in the same thermal. It was all over the place. If we were, once I saw them, I would have roll reversed, assuming they were there first. I had been climbing for awhile before I saw it.

@alexmarkelov7339 5 месяцев назад

Is that in Canada?

@MikeBomstad 5 месяцев назад

It's in the US near Mansfield Washington. There's a link to the flight track log in the video description.

@banalpedant41 2 месяца назад

Honestly, when I see lift like that I really have to wonder what the heck you would do in a paraglider. I have been in strong lift and like most things, until you have experienced it you're likely not aware of just how strong it is.

@MikeBomstad 2 месяца назад

Hang on! The really good pilots make it look easy. (I would need new underwear!) Yep! We dont know what we dont know until we find out. Thanks for the comment.