With two hang glider pilots flying a high performance sailplane what could go wrong? Dave and I had a nice takeoff from 34 at WSC. I looked down, OH... NO... ASI failure on both gauges. I requested the tow pilot abort our mountain tow and place us for a release midfield. I like everything about flying the Duo Discus we were in, EXCEPT, it's less effective air brakes. Out of all planes to land with an ASI failure, this would be my last choice. I erred on the low and fast side, ground effected FOREVER, and landed nicely. After correcting the malfunction we were off for a late start to the beautiful clouds and mountains on try number two.
Today was good despite a cloud base of only 9000.' With our late start a pilot was already reporting Ashland, Oregon when we caught our first thermal.
Today ended up a local mountain day for us and the scenery was fantastic as we pushed North towards Goat Mountain after our release near Walker Ridge.
The thermals were distantly spaced down low but near base we could race in cloud suck and continued to Snow Mountain.
Returning towards Lett's Lake and Goat Ridge.
We topped out under the clouds and pushed through sink for a 25 mile final glide at 100 Knots to a much more relaxing second landing on 16.
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