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Day 14 .. and overdevelopment. |
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Written by Greg
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Thursday, 13 December 2007 |
The basewind is stronger, and it seems as if we are going to get a 'normal' de aar day. By normal I mean needing helpers to hold the wing down, popping up like a cork on the winch line, and getting blown away downwind the minute you release from the winch. A few dust devils sample the dust on the runway. I get towed and grovel away in a weak climb. The clouds build. Nevil goes down at 3km. Des makes it to 13km. I work every scrap of lift I can find, but while I'm working, the clouds are beginning to tower overhead. 20km downwind of me on the course line, a big block of cumulus is promoting itself to the first stage of a thunderstorm. I'm suddenly not very keen to fly. I'm not in the mood to play Captain Cumulus and become an ice-encrusted sky-cork. I fly straight down the Hanover road and land at 25km. The sky looks threatening, then calms down for a while before building again. It takes a long time before a full-blown thunderstorm cell builds, so I begin to question my decision to land. Maybe I could have threaded a line through the clouds.
We rest at the pool, and leave for the much-talked-about Pan Party in Vosburg.
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