Friday, 3rd June 2011
Posted by Geoff on 05 Jun 2011 at 09:34 am | Tagged as: Flying, Holiday
Geoff writes: last night I decided to go to the Lakes for the Lakes Charity Classic, and drove up part way to stay with Andy, continuing the trip this morning. We decided to go to Langdale, rather than Blease, which was where the comp was going, on the grounds that it was closer, and that it seemed it might be better conditions there. The carry up is massive, taking me well over an hour. And the conditions were very weak. Having said that, most people did get up, though some went down, including me, entirely due to my own indecision and incompetence, a feature of my flying this year. Andy and Barney got to the LCC base at Buttermere, about 15km, and said, when I met them later, it was pretty rough. Mike Cavanagh did a 155km triangle.
In a sense, it was good that I didn’t get away – though only 15km from the Langdales to Buttermere, it would be a 60 mile round trip to pick up the car. (I’m being positive here…).
Driving to Buttermere, it seemed that there were people flying everywhere, partly because the sea breeze had come in, making some more sites soarable. It’s quite possible I had the shortest flight of the day in the Lakes.
And at Corndon – maybe five miles down the road, instead of 200 – it was a good day, with David M doing his longest ever XC, 30km, and Steve Parsons doing 117km. Maybe, just maybe, it is finally starting to work down here.
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We flew Parlick on Friday, it was working from before 10:00am until after we left at 7:00pm, inversion at around 2000 ATO, one guy broke through and went over the back towards Fleetwood but fell a bit short I think, fairly strong on Take off early on with mildy choppy thermals but manageable. – you must have driven past us, you could have seen Paragliders easily from the M6?
I guess we did drive past, but didn’t see you. We were in a bit of a rush to get to the Lakes, and I was concentrating on the driving, and you were probably too high! It was very, very lights winds at Langdale. It was on, we were on the right site for the direction, but the only real breeze was when thermals came through.