{"id":5193,"date":"2011-04-21T23:09:20","date_gmt":"2011-04-21T22:09:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=5193"},"modified":"2011-04-21T23:27:27","modified_gmt":"2011-04-21T22:27:27","slug":"thursday-21st-april-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=5193","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, 21st April 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right; border: 1px solid black; margin: 8px;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/images\/210411.jpg\" title=\"PGs and HGs on the Malverns.\" \/><strong>Geoff writes:<\/strong> easterly forecast, so <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog_map.html?mylat=52.076404&#038;mylong=-2.339904&#038;mytext=Malverns Launch\" target=\"_blank\">Malverns<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog_map.html?mylat=52.565501&#038;mylong=-3.025278&#038;mytext=Click on the maximise button to see a video of Corndon.&#038;myvideo=corndon_e.swf\" target=\"_blank\">Corndon<\/a>. We thought both would probably work, but that the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog_map.html?mylat=52.076404&#038;mylong=-2.339904&#038;mytext=Malverns Launch\" target=\"_blank\">Malverns<\/a> might be a bit easier, and a lot more thermal markers, i.e. other pilots. So off we went.<\/p>\n<p>It was breezy when we arrived, but flyable. There were a lot of people, who spent a lot of time trying to get away, but it didn&#8217;t happen, with no significant height at all being achieved. One person did thermal back, and couldn&#8217;t get back to the front, but soon landed, at around 10km. After maybe a couple of hours, the wind dropped, and everyone landed, either top landing or bottom. At the same time, the cumulus did start to improve, and, when a few re-launched, and some got away low, I finally launched too. Bad timing though&#8230;. and I went down, along with a lot of other pilots. Some others did get away later on, but the maximum distance was probably in the 30s, with most people doing a lot less than that.<\/p>\n<p>After Judith picked me up (she wasn&#8217;t flying today, she wasn&#8217;t very well), we went back to the car park to drop off some others, but I didn&#8217;t bother going up again, it was a bit late. Though it was flyable till dark, and, whilst sitting in the car park having a beer, at least one other person went.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog_map.html?mylat=52.565501&#038;mylong=-3.025278&#038;mytext=Click on the maximise button to see a video of Corndon.&#038;myvideo=corndon_e.swf\" target=\"_blank\">Corndon<\/a> wasn&#8217;t any better &#8211; some went XC, but less than 20km. Again, the north was the place to be with some good XCs done in the Lakes.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/photo_galls\/210411\/index.html\"target=_blank> See photos of today.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoff writes: easterly forecast, so Malverns or Corndon. We thought both would probably work, but that the Malverns might be a bit easier, and a lot more thermal markers, i.e. other pilots. So off we went. It was breezy when we arrived, but flyable. There were a lot of people, who spent a lot of [&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\/5193"}],"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=5193"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5193\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5198,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5193\/revisions\/5198"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}