Hello Pilots!

Dang...It's COLD in them thar hills!  

Well hopefully it will warm up soon! There have been some good flying days sparsely intertwined between the recent rash of winter storms plowing through the region.

This month we have a robust Ridge dancer for you. A great interview of Dan Foust by Ann regarding his wonderful trip to Peru. We also have an site introduction for you P4s wanting to fly the mystical Mt. Diablo. To top it off Jeff Greenbaum has contributed an article about Coastal Wind Shear.

I know that some pilots have been asking when we will have a downloadable, printable version of the Ridagedancer. We are working on this...really we are. Since the engne that drives this newsletter is based off of an Open Source product (that simply means FREE to us non-geeks) we basically have to search for the modules that allow us to perform magic in the site. One of those modules are for printing the whole newsletter at once.

You can print article by article now but we want to make easier to print the whole shabang at once. In the mean time I am going to put the document in PDF format manually so those of us wanting to print the RD may do so. I will do it for the issues I have been editor of. I will let you know when I have that done. 

As usual, I close with a request for more articles and or photos! Send them please!!!! We welcome any comments or suggestions as well!!!

Take care, get high and stay high!

Rich