Minden Soaring Jan 2012 1st wave flight glider Nevada

Great trip to Minden, NV to rent gliders. I'm from Michigan so this was my first solo ridge and wave lift flights. Stunning scenery, great equipment and gliders at SoaringNV. This is a 3:11 wave flight on 1/14/12. I uploaded it to OLC with 190.37 points, but not sure it will stick because my IGC file in incomplete.

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Sports

Tags:

• soaring
• glider
• Minden
• Nevada
• LS4
• XCSoar
• wave
• ridge
• Sierra

[aaronk514]

@bviv You are the master of ridge video! Very much enjoyed all your stuff. ... Aaron

[pcordellyb]

Dangerous Place to be without a Transponder. At least you were on the Reno freq.

[aaronk514]

@pcordellyb This glider IS equipped with a transponder which was on and in alt mode.

[jcb2001]

Great video. Had a similar experience there and got to 15K on my flight. Agree with you, great equipment to rent.

[bviv]

Thanks a lot! That was like giving crack to an addict during recovery. When will this winter ever end?!?!? ;)  Really fun to watch. Thanks so much for taking the time to share. Bruno

[gshibaya]

Thanks for sharing your video. It's good to see Minden's scenery.