Friday, 10th December 2010
Posted by Judith on 10 Dec 2010 at 07:44 pm | Tagged as: Flying
Good forecast for Santa Brigida today. Sunny, north at the coast and with the cold front going through yesterday, it was probably going to be unstable. We went out early-ish and were the first there. Jordi and Patri joined us soon after, bringing two and a half week old Oriol with them. Strange to hear tiny baby screams on a paragliding launch.
We had a nice fly. It was very thermic, although the thermals were not completely smooth to start with. We top landed to have a chat when John and Johnny arrived. All flew, but I decided it would do me good to have a ground handling session, so I did that for half and hour and then had what I assumed to be the end of the day flight along with John. I got really low and thought I’d have to bottom land, when I hooked a weak thermal and got back up. Very satisfying.
It wasn’t the last thermal of the day… John and Johnny did the same trick 20 minutes later, when they both got a low save too. At the real end of the day, Johnny flew down the new Niviuk Zion.
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are you still trying the vega 3 ????
Hi Luke,
No, I gave it back, but really liked it. How are you getting on with your quest for a new glider? Any you like yet?
Jx
Nope 🙁 was hoping to hear wot you thought ???
Not been any weather to get arranged test fly and then a Good day today but am at work 🙁
Have played with a med vega 2 ground handled on mynd last time out 🙂
Was very nice but cause could not fly it … just wizzed about on take off 🙂
Was good handling 🙂 am definitely leaning that way 🙂
I liked the Vega III, no complaints about the wing. Very solid, but with even better performance than the Vega II. Let me know what you think when you get a chance to fly it.
Take care, have fun and don’t work too hard!