{"id":2542,"date":"2010-04-27T18:00:59","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T17:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=2542"},"modified":"2010-04-28T09:13:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T08:13:13","slug":"monday-26th-april-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=2542","title":{"rendered":"Monday, 26th April 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left; border: 1px solid black; margin: 8px;\" title=\"Geoff flying at the Mynd.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/images\/260410.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/>The forecast was for a day that could be either epic or blown out, so it was about a 50\/50 chance. I had a hair dressing appointment first thing and as I drove over the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog_map.html?mylat=52.522147&amp;mylong=-2.881771&amp;mytext=Click on the maximise button to see a video of the Long Mynd.&amp;myvideo=mynd.swf\" target=\"_blank\">Long Mynd<\/a> at 8.30am I was impressed to find Mark Hogan already flying. Ten\/ten for effort! On my way back there were more pilots assembled, but it was cloudy and windy, so I headed home for coffee and second breakfast.<\/p>\n<p>The wind soon picked up more and for a while there were only hang gliders (lots of them) and speed wings flying. About 2pm it seemed to be dropping and a paraglider had launched, so we headed out. The sky looked like you could go for miles&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>On top it was still very windy and packed for a Monday. Geoff rigged the hang glider while Helen launched and went over the back. He had a nice flight, but at one point at trim on the HG was only going forwards at 13kmph, which isn&#8217;t much at all. Others took off, some went XC (voluntary and involuntary) and some landed reporting &#8216;interesting&#8217; conditions. To be fair, a lot of people thought it was fine, but I don&#8217;t like strong winds, so stayed on the ground. By 5pm, Mick and I had written off the chance of an XC, so we decided to have a tandem flight. We still had to wait until 6.30pm until the gusty conditions subsided, but then had a lovely boat about, trying to make the most of the evening thermals and wave.<\/p>\n<p>And then off to the pub as usual&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/photo_galls\/260410\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">See photos of today.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>See Glyn&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=4AlWp6vAHns\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a> of us flying today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The forecast was for a day that could be either epic or blown out, so it was about a 50\/50 chance. I had a hair dressing appointment first thing and as I drove over the Long Mynd at 8.30am I was impressed to find Mark Hogan already flying. Ten\/ten for effort! On my way back [&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\/2542"}],"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=2542"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2553,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2542\/revisions\/2553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2542"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2542"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2542"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}