Wednesday, 22nd September 2010
Posted by Geoff on 23 Sep 2010 at 10:17 am | Tagged as: Flying, Walking
Geoff writes: After staying at Andy’s, we headed out to the Peaks again. We thought it would be flyable, but not an XC day, with a reasonable breeze, but only weak thermals. And so it turned out. We started off at Stanage, only the second time we have flown it on a PG, though we’ve flown it countless times on hang gliders. Did the ridge run a couple of time, gaining very little height – less than 200′ ATO – got a bit bored, and went and landed, as the wind was turning further south (Stanage is a SW site). Had a nice chat with Steve Hudson, who runs a para and hang gliding school in the Peaks, and who in fact taught Judith to fly hang gliders many years ago. Judith was thrilled to hear that he now recommends our podcasts to his students.
We then went to Rushup, hoping to do the long ridge run down to Lose Hill, but there was too much west in it for that. People were flying Rushup, but we decided not to bother, and went to do tourist stuff – a walk in the Manifold Valley, followed by a further walk and meal around Butterton, a nice village nearby. All in all, a pleasant couple of days away.
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Judith mentioned that she was trying out new harness’s – further detail please.
I was going to try a Gin race thing from Mark Leavesley, but the weather didn’t permit that, so still waiting for a go. Geoff needs a new harness and I am considering continuing with the comps, in which case I need a certified harness. I’m in no rush though. Our harnesses are fine for the winter and I can start looking around in spring.
Well, well, well. I’ve just had a couple of emails about this and I’ve realised you should never trust a dealer without checking out the facts yourself. So when I was in France, a well known dealer (not Mark of course) told me that if I wanted to continue with comps next year I needed a new harness I took that at face value and didn’t check. So he either thinks I’m that good that I’ll make it into the national team (pffff!), or so gullible that I’ll just buy one based on his advice. Either way, the need for certified back protection only applies to Cat 1 comps from 2011 and although the Brits and other Cat 2 comps might eventually follow suit, this will not be for a while yet, so no need to go out and panic buy!
Here’s the link to CIVL on this requirement: http://www.fai.org/hang_gliding/system/files/civl_plenary_2010_minutes.pdf