Having arranged to meet Anand at the turn-off at 1100, I was surprised to receive a message from him saying he had turned around and gone home due to it looking too stable.
Fair enough it was cloudless blue, but the forecast promised more and in fact I was expecting an increasing wind. Of course that would be after I had launch and skyed-out on the way to far distant places.
There was no-one else at the carpark so I lingered modifying my plan. Then Rodger turned up and in no time at all we were off to the launch.
It looked promising at launch, the wind seemed good and clouds were forming, so we rigged up. And here was the fatal mistake, we didn't stop and wait, as soon as we thought it was OK we launched and unfortunately we launched into nothing. A couple of zig-zags and we on the deck. Bummer.
Of course in the meantime Nick and Evan were on the way and launched about an hour later and flew to Matakana. I'm really starting to hate that.
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Fair enough it was cloudless blue, but the forecast promised more and in fact I was expecting an increasing wind. Of course that would be after I had launch and skyed-out on the way to far distant places.
There was no-one else at the carpark so I lingered modifying my plan. Then Rodger turned up and in no time at all we were off to the launch.
It looked promising at launch, the wind seemed good and clouds were forming, so we rigged up. And here was the fatal mistake, we didn't stop and wait, as soon as we thought it was OK we launched and unfortunately we launched into nothing. A couple of zig-zags and we on the deck. Bummer.
Of course in the meantime Nick and Evan were on the way and launched about an hour later and flew to Matakana. I'm really starting to hate that.
Leonardo Flight Link
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