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My first ton! (and it’s only taken me 22 years :-)

Well, I’ve finally cracked it, and as the title says, it only took me 22 years to do it! Good things do indeed come to those who wait 🙂 It was definitely on the breezy side at Liddington, and it took me a while before I left the hill on my own in a lovely climb.

I haven’t got time to write a full story right now, but here are a few more pics and a video clip of me passing the 100km mark. There will be a full write up and video to follow in due course…

Dave Thomas on his Nova Factor near Petersfield

Looking east along the south coast – Littlehampton is in the middle of the photo

I landed on the beach at Littlehampton to the east (left) of the river

Tim Pentreath

April 13, 2011

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5 responses to “My first ton! (and it’s only taken me 22 years :-)”

Colin

April 13, 2011 at 8:21 pm

Good one Tim,

I climbed out just before you I think (we were both working the field at the front if you remember). Anyway I made a really(!!) stupid decision to try and glide to the start of a classic looking cloud street with sailplanes zooming up ad down it. Massive sink; 5000ft to the deck in 5 minutes for 20ish km at Hungerford 😦 – I’ve done that before it didn’t work last time, didn’t work this, duh!!

Good one, hope we get many more like this year – bit less windy though.

Colin

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1. Tim Pentreath
  
  April 14, 2011 at 8:29 am
  
  Colin, I feel for you – gutting… So much of this game is luck isn’t it, it’s just that some days you have more luck than other days! Next time…!
  
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Nik Valiris

April 14, 2011 at 8:25 am

Tim this would be great in SkyWings either next issue or the one after, I really enjoyed the read and video well done. For LAT pilots like me things like this just show what can be achieved with more experience.
Cheers
NikV

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1. Tim Pentreath
  
  April 14, 2011 at 8:31 am
  
  Cheers Nik, I’ll write a longer version for Skywings in due course. Look out for the full length video coming v soon – that will inspire and encourage you…!
  
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