Geoff writes: second day of the comp, and blown out. Briefed at 9.00, briefed at 11, briefed at 1 – at which point they decided to come to the Long Mynd anyway, since it was definitely westerly, and they were hopeful the wind would drop. It didn’t really, though late afternoon one or two launched, followed by some others, by which time the day had been canned (though a lot of pilots had given up before then). Then the wind picked up again, and people started having problems penetrating, and most landed.

On the other hand, I had a great time on the hang glider, getting around two hours (and it was flyable all day for hang gliders). Nicely thermic, I did get to base, at only 1800′ ATO. But it was easy to push forward a long way, and on my second flight one or two PGs also did.

Oddly, for a long time, I was the only hang glider there, then Max turned up and flew. Graeme rigged, but didn’t fly, it was a bit windy on launch. So on a nice, easy day for hang gliders, at the weekend, only two of us flew.

Some people not in the comp went to the coast, Harlech, and flew the dunes. We had thought about going to the coast, but decided to stay here, because I could fly the HG, and if it got taskable we didn’t want to miss an XC day on the PGs.

See photos of today.

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