I was excited, this was finally a chance for me to try the F488 at thunderhill to see how it and I did on my home track.
Flight was nice and uneventful, thankfully no overcast in the morning:
trying a new $69 10 tablet
Once at Thunderhill, as usual, it took me a while to re-learn the track, because I was rusty, and somehow got down to a 1:%3 after a few laps although the car had several seconds left in it. Laptimes were: 1:58, 1:59, 1:57, 1:54, 1:54, and 1:53:
Unfortunately, despite the day staying cool, the first set of tires went down while I was relearning to go faster, so my best time got down to 1:57. I then got the tires set to another used set, but they weren't that great either, and got stuck at 1:57 and couldn't get faster both due to grippier tires and lack of guts to go deeper in some turns where I could definitely have gone a bit deeper. I didn't feel my best and I guess it was overall a good idea that I didn't push it. Here's the last session:
The flight back was more interesting than planned, half the bay area was socked almost to the ground, so I had to fly around via livermore, and was unable to descend to cross the bay towards PAO without getting into Bravo airspace for which I was denied clearance, so I had to fly a fair amount further south, cross south of San Jose, and then fly back in towards PAO which worked out ok. There was a good crosswind on landing but I thankfully kept the motor skills and landed straight on centerline.
