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Written by Greg
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Thursday, 13 December 2007 |
I have never experienced a day that looked so good from the clouds and yet was so weak. After doing winch duty and delivering some disasterous tows in zero wind (read cloud of dust) with Ewa and waiting for ages with Nevil in the baking sun, when I finally got into the sky it was very light. Even though the clouds were popping all over the place, the air was hardly moving, no basewind, I spent 20minutes in one thermal directly above the centre of the runway. Slowly slowly worked up to cloudbase at 3500m.
After losing it on my first tow, and spending ages working broken little cores, I was getting so excited going up at a steady 1m/s towards the clouds. I quickly took off my helmet and balaclava to get the oxygen system in place, then zipped up the inner jacket and my flight suit and put on my gloves, to be prepared just in case I got sucked up into the towering clouds. I was going to get so high! The 150km FAI triangle course lay before me, and there were so many little cumulus clouds to choose from. I tucked in and went on glide under the cloud. Beeeeeeee..... the vario told a sad story. I made 8km on the road and landed.
Nev landed at 20km.
Visiting pilot Stefan blasted out a 168km FAI Triangle. Incredible! And the Italian, Gialuca, did a 150km FAI triangle. Not easy conditions.
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Last Updated ( Thursday, 13 December 2007 )
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