Tom Preisser

Awesome thanks

URL please? I used to be able to get these frequently updated obs for my airport AWOS but the web address I used to use stopped working

Three red tail hawks & a kettle of turkey vultures were in the mix today

Stupendous strong fall thermals 🌤️🌨️
When it's snowing in the cockpit (through the air vent) ❄️❄️❄️
it's time to go down

Eking it out in weak lift, overdeveloped late afternoon in autumn

Thermaling with our neighborhood pair of experts (bald eagles) today
🦅🦅🛬

We were in the same thermal all day, lovely late afternoon, downwind of the airport, forecast cumulus were a no show but we didn't need them after all

We however managed to stay up on this crystal clear CAVU bluetiful day

Redtail hawk over gross & aborted takeoff for lunch

First real fall post-frontal day, moderate turbulence & wind shear forecast & it was a wild ride! Jolts of powerful lift but very challenging to center, here's our best one (5x replay speed). 🌪️

And the blueberry barren burnoff bacon saver was the thermal to get us home

Two cool things on our pre-rainy autumnal low-key thermal day

1) Soaring with bald eagles

Both days thermaling over the little city north of the airfield where the sea breeze effect was less pronounced. Annual blueberry barren burn off fire shows wind direction (southeast off the ocean).

Two sunny September #bluesky days soaring in a row, found some strong thermals and stayed up!

Spectacular September soaring sky, generous lift under lowish 3,000 ft cloud bases near the airport

#bluesky morning

It's the lift that keeps on giving

Or, maybe we're just getting better 🙄

We got high & stayed high today, no motor restart

🌥️👍

✅ Post-frontal
✅ No smoke
✅ 76F surface, 42F 6,000 feet
✅ No seabreeze

=

Beautiful strong coastal thermaling 🌥️

Soaring is so easy 😀

(In the right conditions 😁)

Over her dad's house at 6,000 ft

Back in time for ⛈️ & then 🌈

We weren't the only soaring bird working under the big thermal cloud today (he joined us & then outclimbed us 🦅)

Like Christmas!

Still hot & smoky but our late afternoon timing & location were right, under the one big (& growing!) cumulus cloud inland of the seabreeze inversion - 6500 feet easy final glide home

A cool 58F at 7000 foot cloud base makes for a happy co-pilot

Who knew that the 95F🌡️smoky 💨🔥 day would produce magnificent soaring, with unforecasted heaps of cumulus cloud around the airport on the sea breeze boundary

Hazy smoky sky out the cockpit window

Hard to sight anything today in the air with the return of wildfire smoke, but there was still lift & we thermalled with a vulture at close range so we could keep eyes on each other

Rare sighting on the field today, another Diamond aircraft

01/8/2025 Happy birthday our wings are 43 years young today 🎂