{"id":2121,"date":"2010-03-04T22:31:51","date_gmt":"2010-03-04T21:31:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=2121"},"modified":"2010-03-04T23:05:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-04T22:05:36","slug":"thursday-4th-february-2010-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=2121","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, 4th February 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left; border: 1px solid black; margin: 8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/images\/040310.jpg\" title=\"Geoff flying St Brigida.\" \/><strong>Geoff writes:<\/strong> Forecast was ok, likely to be cloudy, clearing later. It was indeed cloudy when we woke up, but quickly cleared and it was sunny. The 11.30am forecast put a bit of a dampener on the day when they predicted possible rain. As we went out, the cloud was getting more extensive as we got closer to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog_map.html?mylat=41.970575&#038;mylong=2.620435&#038;mytext=La Cellera\" target=\"_blank\">La Cellera<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I went to pick up an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.niviuk.com\/esp\/glider_product.asp?prod=artik2\">Artik 2<\/a> from Niviuk to test fly it. They&#8217;ve moved into nice, new, big headquarters here, and Xiliu gave us the tour. I later went to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog_map.html?mylat=42.021700&#038;mylong=2.612554&#038;mytext=Santa Brigida Launch\" target=\"_blank\">Santa Brigida<\/a>, and flew the Artik a few times, top landing, but the clouds were big, black and low, and it seemed to me like there was lots of cloud suck, so I spent most of the time trying not to get high. It is a vast improvement on my Hook though, far better glide, and nice and responsive; and really easy to launch. I have it for at least a week, so should get some nice conditions to fly it.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, there was another 25cm of snow at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.masella.com\/?idioma=ING\" target=_blank> Masella<\/a>, so tomorrow we&#8217;re off skiing, a nice sunny forecast. First farewell dinner tonight. Bit sad to say goodbye to Liz, Judith&#8217;s mum, who is off to Israel for three weeks, so we won&#8217;t see her until next autumn.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/photo_galls\/040310\/index.html\"target=_blank> See photos of today.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoff writes: Forecast was ok, likely to be cloudy, clearing later. It was indeed cloudy when we woke up, but quickly cleared and it was sunny. The 11.30am forecast put a bit of a dampener on the day when they predicted possible rain. As we went out, the cloud was getting more extensive as we [&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\/2121"}],"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=2121"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2129,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions\/2129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}