Log books at the ready, guys…

Since we all enjoyed the stats game last month, I thought we’d do it all again (given that it was definitely not flyable today, not even for the hang gliding comp at Clatter)!

Well, what a crap month August was. Here are the figures for our flying:

Days when we flew: 9
Days we went XC: 5
Days a complete and utter write-off: 19

The other days were times other people did fly but we couldn’t be bothered (e.g. late evening flights, flights after prolonged rain, too ill). Also, some of the days we wrote off were, in fact, flyable, but possibly only by travelling a fair distance, or ridge soaring on small coastal sites, or flying PGs in stronger winds than we would like, etc. So it’s likely that some pilots from this area did, in fact, fly a lot more than nine days.

In comparison to August last year:

Days where we flew: 14
Days we went XC: 2
Days a complete and utter write-off: 16

And in 2007 (bearing in mind that was my first year of XC flying on a PG):

Days where we flew: 13
Days we went XC: 7

In conclusion: we’re coming back to the UK in March next year and going back to Spain in August! It’s the only way to stay sane…

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