It was thermal day with dusty crosswind. Then Branko, Adriana, my wife Jana and me went to restaurant somthing to eat and one beer. We flew with Branko about one hour later.
You can see at 8:40 he had a problem with katabatic wind what mixed to "normal" wind. he did good decision and went around. First climbing surprised him and next he didnt use a full throttle for take off.
It was my true first cross country mountain flying through potentially very hostile and quickly changing weather co...ence. I had to repeat this experience the next day with flying another mountain cros...
...floor. So, the weather (especially winds aloft) has to be perfect. I w...be in early morning since surface winds pick up around 10 AM. I took...6:30 AM. The runway had only small crosswind. But I experienced stro...o through 11,000 MSL and the north winds started diminishing. I flew...