{"id":1115,"date":"2009-10-04T18:41:41","date_gmt":"2009-10-04T17:41:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2009-10-04T19:04:48","modified_gmt":"2009-10-04T18:04:48","slug":"sunday-4th-october-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=1115","title":{"rendered":"Sunday, 4th October 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right; border: 1px solid black; margin: 8px;\" title=\"Flying the Mynd.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/images\/041009.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><strong>Geoff writes:<\/strong> flyable all day at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog_map.html?mylat=52.522147&#038;mylong=-2.881771&#038;mytext=Click on the maximise button to see a video of the Long Mynd.&#038;myvideo=mynd.swf\" target=\"_blank\">Long Mynd<\/a>.\u00a0 I started off on the paraglider, then moved to the hang glider, as it got a little stronger.\u00a0 A couple of nice flights on the HG, though at one point I thought it was getting rough (though by then there weren&#8217;t many PGs left in the air). I think it was a combination of thermals and some wave, trashing them a bit. Most I got was around 1500&#8242; ATO, though I left a strong thermal at that height to come back to the front. We\u00a0landed and went home relatively early, but the wind did drop later and the PGs began flying again.<\/p>\n<p>Not sure how many went XC, maybe six or seven, possibly more. Neither I nor Judith (who was feeling a bit ill anyway) were\u00a0expecting to go\u00a0XC, which might have been a mistake in retrospect. Though probably had I been on the paraglider when people did leave the hill, I&#8217;d have been\u00a0thinking of landing anyway\u00a0because it would have been getting too windy for me. Anyway, Kai did around 80km to Uttoxeter, and Grouse\u00a050km.\u00a0 Mark Leavesley landed at the Wrekin.<\/p>\n<p>No hang gliders went XC &#8211; too much hassle!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/photo_galls\/041009\/index.html\"target=_blank> See photos of today.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoff writes: flyable all day at the Long Mynd.\u00a0 I started off on the paraglider, then moved to the hang glider, as it got a little stronger.\u00a0 A couple of nice flights on the HG, though at one point I thought it was getting rough (though by then there weren&#8217;t many PGs left in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1117,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions\/1117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}