{"id":1169,"date":"2009-10-16T19:15:13","date_gmt":"2009-10-16T18:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=1169"},"modified":"2009-10-16T19:25:10","modified_gmt":"2009-10-16T18:25:10","slug":"friday-16th-october-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=1169","title":{"rendered":"Friday, 16th October 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right; border: 1px solid black; margin: 8px;\" title=\"Geoff over Santa Brigida.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/images\/161009.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>Windy again at the coast, but a lot less windy than tomorrow, when we have a forecast of gale 8 to storm 10! It won&#8217;t be anywhere near that inland, but there are also brisk winds forecast for the Pyrenees, so we thought we&#8217;d better go out today.<\/p>\n<p>We were delayed by urgent work, so didn&#8217;t to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog_map.html?mylat=42.021700&amp;mylong=2.612554&amp;mytext=Santa Brigida Launch\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Brigida<\/a> until 3pm and watched a French guy take off and climb to approximately 1000&#8242; ATO without a single turn. Despite having flown the site hundreds of times, we are always nervous the first flight of the season. The pre-flight nerves were not helped by Xevi turning up and telling us about an accident a friend of ours had had over the summer. I was desperate to get off the hill before he could elaborate more! The French guy came back to the ridge and got low. Being cyclic, I didn&#8217;t think there would be a problem once in the air, so I launched only to sink so fast I thought there was a problem with the glider. Geoff whipped me back up and Xevi had a short flight, but he did get above launch. Geoff had a go and got up, and I did too on my second flight. Nice beer in the landing field.<\/p>\n<p>On reflection, we need to get our heads round the idea that we&#8217;ve actually arrived here much later in the season than usual, so going out late means we&#8217;ve lost the main part of the day. We need to acclimatise&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/photo_galls\/161009\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">See photos of today.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Windy again at the coast, but a lot less windy than tomorrow, when we have a forecast of gale 8 to storm 10! It won&#8217;t be anywhere near that inland, but there are also brisk winds forecast for the Pyrenees, so we thought we&#8217;d better go out today. We were delayed by urgent work, so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"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\/1169"}],"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\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1169"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1175,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1169\/revisions\/1175"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}