Friday, 23rd April 2010
Posted by Geoff on 23 Apr 2010 at 08:47 pm | Tagged as: Flying
Geoff writes: SW, so we went off to Clatter with a whole bunch of people, including Martin, Mark, Glyn and Mick. We launched almost as soon as we got there – Mick and Glyn launched first, and got high, so Martin and I rushed to get off. It was a perfect Clatter day – i.e. launch, and climb out immediately, no wasted time on the ridge. It was a bit rough in places, but the clouds started to develop nicely, and we were able to fly from cloud to cloud, without losing much height. In the end, we got a bit over-confident and went on a long glide between clouds, expecting something to pop up on the way – as had happened previously during the flight. And it did pop up, but only after we had glided to the ground! Patience, patience, patience! We should have stuck with the cloud we were with until we saw something forming a bit closer.
Still, 47km, so not too bad, especially after the difficult couple of weeks we’ve had here, compared with the rest of the country!
Graeme and James – who arrived after us – also went XC, though I’m not sure how far they got. Judith, unfortunately, didn’t manage to get away.
And the retrieve was another master class in hitching. We got a ride from Oswestry right back to the Long Mynd launch (we thought it had gone west) from Ben, who lives in Norbury just down the road from us (and who we didn’t know before today). Brilliant retrieve.
Only thing was, we then had to drive back to Clatter later to pick up Martin’s car ….. Still, no-one’s perfect!
See Glyn’s video of our flying today.
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Hi Geoff, watching Glynn’s video,(more visible just at the beginning) you can see quite a noticeable crease along the span at your D lines level.
Did you have some kind of little knot somewhere or is it how the glider is built?
Don’t know! No knot as far as I know. We’ll check it out. Thanks for mentioning it. Actually, I’ll ask the dealers!
Niviuk in Spain say it’s normal, and appears after applying 15cm of brake. Appears in all the sizes of the Artik2.
Thanks for mentioning it though.
All is good then 🙂