{"id":608,"date":"2009-07-18T19:27:19","date_gmt":"2009-07-18T18:27:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=608"},"modified":"2009-07-18T20:15:16","modified_gmt":"2009-07-18T19:15:16","slug":"saturday-18th-july-2009","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/?p=608","title":{"rendered":"Saturday, 18th July 2009"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright\" style=\"float: right; border: 1px solid black; margin: 8px;\" title=\"Geoff launching on his second flight.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/images\/180709.JPG\" alt=\"\" \/><strong>Geoff writes:<\/strong> second day of the comp, and blown out. Briefed at 9.00, briefed at 11, briefed at 1 &#8211; at which point they decided to come to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog_map.html?mylat=52.522147&#038;mylong=-2.881771&#038;mytext=Click on the maximise button to see a video of the Long Mynd.&#038;myvideo=mynd.swf\" target=\"_blank\">Long Mynd<\/a> anyway, since it was definitely westerly, and they were hopeful the wind would drop. It didn&#8217;t really, though late afternoon one or two launched, followed by some others, by which time the day had been canned (though a lot of pilots had given up before then). Then the wind picked up again, and people started having problems penetrating, and most landed.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, I had a great time on the hang glider, getting around two hours (and it was flyable all day for hang gliders). Nicely thermic, I did get to base, at only 1800&#8242; ATO. But it was easy to push forward a long way, and on my second flight one or two PGs also did.<\/p>\n<p>Oddly, for a long time, I was the only hang glider there, then Max turned up and flew. Graeme rigged, but didn&#8217;t fly, it was a bit windy on launch. So on a nice, easy day for hang gliders, at the weekend, only two of us flew.<\/p>\n<p>Some people not in the comp went to the coast, Harlech, and flew the dunes. We had thought about going to the coast, but decided to stay here, because I could fly the HG, and if it got taskable we didn&#8217;t want to miss an XC day on the PGs.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/photo_galls\/180709\/index.html\"target=_blank> See photos of today.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Geoff writes: second day of the comp, and blown out. Briefed at 9.00, briefed at 11, briefed at 1 &#8211; at which point they decided to come to the Long Mynd anyway, since it was definitely westerly, and they were hopeful the wind would drop. It didn&#8217;t really, though late afternoon one or two launched, [&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\/608"}],"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=608"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":613,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/608\/revisions\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.judithmole.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}