{"id":3390,"date":"2010-08-10T22:38:54","date_gmt":"2010-08-10T21:38:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=3390"},"modified":"2010-08-12T22:26:42","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T21:26:42","slug":"tuesday-10th-august-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=3390","title":{"rendered":"Tuesday, 10th August 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft\" style=\"float: left; border: 1px solid black; margin: 8px;\" title=\"Geoff ready to launch.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/images\/100810.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><strong>Geoff writes:<\/strong> stunning XC sky, definitely a day for lots of paragliders doing 100km plus from 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>, except that for most of the day it was way too windy for them. I had a fun time on the hang glider.<\/p>\n<p>Low down, it was fairly bumpy, with lots of very broken thermals. Every so often you would get a really strong thermal which overcame the met wind, and you screamed up. I didn&#8217;t bother going XC, but it was certainly possible, and easy to go on a hang glider. I&#8217;ve got a bit more nervous about landing out on the hang glider, having got used to the incredible easiness of landing out on a paraglider, where you can land it almost anywhere &#8211; whereas the hang glider, you need a nice flat field, preferably with no high crops in it and a clean approach.<\/p>\n<p>One bit of excitement today was seeing a sailplane badly mess up his approach and crash by the road, fortunately with no injuries, except a written off glider. He was lucky there were no\u00a0tourists around, and the two horses nearby weren&#8217;t\u00a0spooked too much by it. It was quite dramatic.<\/p>\n<p>After a couple of flights, and early evening, we decided not to bother waiting to fly the PGs, and went and did some shooting at the archery field.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and we were out a bit late today &#8211; a nearly four hour phone meeting for our next conference in the morning, which delayed us somewhat.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/photo_galls\/100810\/index.html\" target=\"_blank\">See photos of today.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoff writes: stunning XC sky, definitely a day for lots of paragliders doing 100km plus from the Long Mynd, except that for most of the day it was way too windy for them. I had a fun time on the hang glider. Low down, it was fairly bumpy, with lots of very broken thermals. Every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7,3,20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3390"}],"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=3390"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3390\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3407,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3390\/revisions\/3407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}