Friday, 11th December 2009
Posted by Judith on 11 Dec 2009 at 07:04 pm | Tagged as: Flying
Warm (20°C) and sunny today, although this is the last in the spell. From tomorrow we’re in for a 5°C drop. Today should have been good on paper – high pressure and Tramuntana, but it was very stable. We headed out to Santa Brigida and saw a French white pick-up there. It could only be Mike Cluer. Really nice to see him. We haven’t seen each other since March, so there was plenty to catch up on. Geoff and Nani flew, but it was weak with little wind or thermals.
More and more people arrived and it seems that Friday is now a popular day to come out. Everyone got off and had a nice time, top landing sporadically. As I was launching, I tripped over a rock and went sprawling, much to Albert’s amusement. Once I had dusted myself down I had to wait until there was a good cycle again. Once in the air, I wasn’t flying very well and went down. Geoff persevered and got up and top landed again.
I was hoping that the evening flying would be nice, but with the stable air, the wind in the valley turned north earlier than usual, so we didn’t bother and chatted to Mike some more.
Off to Sicily tomorrow, so no blog for a few days.
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Cracking couple of days on the South Downs (Devils Dyke and Bo Peep), mostly boring soaring, or sometimes scratching. Still, there is light at the end of the tunnel – the nights will be getting shorter soon.
Was that you on the sigma Dave?
Nice to fly with you if it was.
Simon Trango 3.
Simon, I thought I saw you in the car park at bo peep, but then went off to fly and never got to speak as I had to go back to work. I was on the bright Yellow Nova Factor, with Advance impress harness – Couldn’t afford a Sigma as well!. First time on that site and good fun – especially getting up the West end after a risky low glide across the quarry and trees. It’s a nice hill, and it’s got it’s technical elements to it with all those gullies and lumps out front. To get high you have to work out the air movements really well and not just boat along the ridge.