{"id":392,"date":"2009-03-25T20:28:33","date_gmt":"2009-03-25T19:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=392"},"modified":"2009-03-25T20:30:20","modified_gmt":"2009-03-25T19:30:20","slug":"wednesday-25th-march-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=392","title":{"rendered":"Wednesday, 25th March 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right; border: 1px solid black; margin: 8px;\" title=\"Tandem over St Brigida.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/images\/250309.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/>The van is fixed, so we have our freedom back! It was a glorious day, so we went out to fly. Forecast was for wind from pretty much any direction, but mostly west, which doesn&#8217;t usually bode well. We decided to go 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>, and saw strong wind on the way. On getting to Amer, it was over the back and very gusty, but to our amazement, people were launching from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog_map.html?mylat=41.962954&amp;mylong=2.594093&amp;mytext=Puig d'Afrou launch. Puig d'Afrou is a hill near La Cellera. 900m high (approximately). Click on the maximise button to see a video of me flying at Puig d'Afrou in 2007.&amp;myvideo=judith_puig.swf\" target=\"_blank\">Puig d&#8217;Afrou<\/a> and getting up. It was too late for us to go, so we went for a spot of lunch with Roger and Patricia, a Ryanair pilot who is keen to learn to fly paragliders. We took her up to the launch, just to show her around, and the wind turned south. Geoff and I both flew, along with a French guy and his wife from Albertville. Unfortunately, it was too late for Roger, who had to be at the airport for 4.30pm.<\/p>\n<p>Conditions were interesting. Geoff found it bumpy, but I didn&#8217;t. At one point I thought I had got into convergence, but it stopped over the middle of the valley. In the end it turned east and on my second flight I got drilled. Still, nice to be in the air again.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The van is fixed, so we have our freedom back! It was a glorious day, so we went out to fly. Forecast was for wind from pretty much any direction, but mostly west, which doesn&#8217;t usually bode well. We decided to go to Santa Brigida, and saw strong wind on the way. On getting to [&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\/392"}],"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=392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}