{"id":150,"date":"2008-08-03T21:14:47","date_gmt":"2008-08-03T20:14:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=150"},"modified":"2008-08-05T10:25:17","modified_gmt":"2008-08-05T09:25:17","slug":"sunday-3rd-august-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=150","title":{"rendered":"Sunday, 3rd August 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left; border: 1px solid black; margin: 8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/images\/030808.JPG\" title=\"Geoff flying at the Mynd. Thanks to Wayne for the photo.\" \/>A better day than expected. Basically, 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>, though for a few hours in the middle it was a bit strong for paragliders.<\/p>\n<p>I started off flying the hang glider. As soon as I launched, I realised there was something wrong; big left turn, and pitching and diving constantly. I immediately flew out to the landing field &#8211; the emergency field, much bigger than the usual one &#8211; and managed to get it down more or less in one piece. On derigging, we realised the mylar in the left leading edge was folded over; packing it away the day before very sloppily had done that, and made it dangerous and unflyable. I was very relieved to get away with it. A very, very stupid thing to do.<\/p>\n<p>We took the HG home, and went back up the hill. It was then flyable for PGs, but Judith was tired from the clubbing the night before, and didn&#8217;t fly. I flew the PG in very pleasant conditions for over an hour; landed as it was getting a bit stronger. Later, it dropped off again, and was flyable until late evening.<\/p>\n<p>Monday looks like it&#8217;s possible for PGs. I need to check the HG over, and pull out and iron the mylar, which is probably very creased now, but I&#8217;ll leave that till later in the week, since, surprise, surprise, a lot of rain is forecast. Make the most of Monday!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A better day than expected. Basically, flyable all day at the Long Mynd, though for a few hours in the middle it was a bit strong for paragliders. I started off flying the hang glider. As soon as I launched, I realised there was something wrong; big left turn, and pitching and diving constantly. I [&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\/150"}],"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=150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}