Wave Camp, California City

02/19/10

This was a one-week soaring trip to California City to attend Wave Camp and try to obtain my altitude diamond (5000m climb). It turns out that as soon as I arrived, the wave left. Nonetheless, I had some excellent instruction that, so early in my flying career, made me into a more disciplined, better pilot. I took some aerobatic training in a ASK-21 with tail weights and learnt the basics of loops, rolls, spins, and such. The group had planned to attend a session in a hypobaric chamber at Edwards Air Force Base, but this too was foiled. We toured the flight line instead. Excellent hardware they have there...

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