Skip to main content

Season Opener

Wayne, Anand, Andy, and myself launched not long after 1pm into a reasonable 25 km/hr WSW. An inkling that the sea-breeze had arrived was later to be confirmed.

It was looking promising, but there were no fluffy cu, or other favourable tell-tales.

So we spent between 1 and 2 hours going back and forward along the ridge hoping for the lift that would take us over the back, it wasn't to be.

Upwind I rode the speed bar most times, and downwind I was able to clock around 60 km/hr without it. The occasional bubble would come through but tended to be broken and rough, not enough to latch on to and in the end I went too far out in front losing the ridge and sinking out.

A few attempts at a low save only served to delay my demise and I eventually landed in the bomb-out paddock after a 53 minute uninspiring flight.
Leonardo Flight Link

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Better at Walking Than Flying?

The sacrifices I make for the greater good. The forecast was pretty good regarding the usual parameters. But a couple of  indicators weren't that great. First, the wind was expected to be more westerly than wanted and, a new one of interest, was that on the Skew-T Plot (the vertical X-section of the atmosphere) the gap between the Blue (dew-point Temperature) and Red (air Temperature) lines was unusually large and grew bigger as the day progressed. In simple terms, "no clouds". And this turned out to be the case. Andy was the only one at the turnoff, so he lept into the car and we proceeded to the end of the road. Out at launch conditions looked perfect, nice back-ground breeze with good, but not strong cycles coming up the hill from the SW. The wind already had a Westerly tilt. But in hind-sight the main indicator was already there. Very few clouds, and what there was were small and not well formed. As we prepared to launch a couple of nice clouds did form out ...
Read more

A New Year

Looks a possibility, maybe a little strong, but what the heck let's go have a look. Arriving at launch it is marginal, steady 22-25 km/hr min 15 max 30 ish. Sit and see if it changes. It does, strengthening slightly to 33 max, and swinging once again to the SE. Steve Dwyer and Les Graham turned up to show me how Hangies do it, and although Steve launched and soared for a while, Les didn't have a good day. The clouds finally gave up and so did I.
Post a Comment
Read more