Saturday, 7th June – UK
Posted by Geoff on 07 Jun 2008 at 09:52 pm | Tagged as: Flying
I was out late today since I had a social engagement – which was vey enjoyable, seeing old friends and colleagues, even though I did cut it short when I saw the birds thermalling and started getting all the 3jam messages, saying it was flyable at Llangollen, the Wrekin, Corndon, Sarn ….
I eventually got to Corndon about 3.00 pm – and predictably the sky had overdeveloped, no sun at all. Michaela and Frank also turned up. As usual at Corndon during the day, there was little or no ridge lift, so we – actually Frank – kept trying to give it a go. I did launch once with some birds, got up 120′ or so, then lost it. Finally, around 5.00 pm, the sky started to clear, the sun came out, the cumulus appeared, and Frank and I managed to launch and get straight into a thermal, which took us over the back. Didn’t get very high, 1700 or so ATO, Frank landed at Church Stoke, I got between Bishops Castle and Clun – the conditions put me off a bit and I didn’t fly very well. It was rough, and I had quite a few small collapses, which distracted me. And the sky had quickly filled in again. Anyway, I was very pleased to get away, but really should have gone much further. See the XC page (link on right) for the short tracklog. Thanks to Wayne and Michaela for the retrieve.
Well done to James Davidson for getting 70 or 80k from Cemmaes in mid Wales. Also to the pilot who landed near Sarn from Llangollen – 50k or so. It was a day to be out and in the air early (mind you, that’s nearly always the case).
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We,re not at all upset by the fabulous conditions in the uk this week. No, no, no… Still sitting looking at big grey clouds, driving from, site to site, all under torrential rain, wondering if Ryan Air would do a cheap day return out of sympathy for its future national comp girls… However, we have had a fab talk from Jocky, lots of laughs with the Three Funny Scottish Teams, AND moved into our minging caravan without moaning toooo much. Thank goodness we,re both excellent socialites that can find more to life on non-flyable days. Well, for two days, anyway. Much longer and Judith will be sending me out to the cattle market to be sold… she is a woman of great patience… and fab bog roll. Anyway, I,m junping for joy today as Pat has flown superbly in the Champs – results not quite out yet but its looking good for someone,s debut return to the nationals after a ten year break. Power to that man,s arm. And let,s hope some of it rubs off on mine… Must go, some minging sleep to be had in our minging castle. Not moaning though, you understand… RudyXXX