Month: August 2011
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Magic Monday! (for some)
Well I’m not sure what happened to the 8-9 mph NW’lys that were forecast, but when Nick and I arrived at Batcombe at about 1130 we were greeted by winds of at least double that and much parawaiting! After an hour and a half of people popping up from behind the shelter of the nearby…
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Flymaster B1 Nav user defined fields and other settings
08/02/2012: All the information previously in this post has been moved here.
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Ending on a high
So it’s the last day of the comp and we’ve only managed one valid task despite lots of free-flying… What will this final task bring us? The answer – a fantastic 68km race to goal including a trip to the Morgon (much less intimidating with lots of company!), two turnpoints on the opposite side of…
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Into the heart of the Morgon…
Well, guess what? Task canned at 1600, conditions switch on at 1610! C’est la vie ๐ Oh well, pas de probleme, Hugh and I had a mission, and that was to fly to the Morgon – a massive lump of rock to the north of the Dormillouse. We climbed up to 2800m at the Dormillouse…
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Task 2 – A tale of two flights…
Beautiful conditions today – perfect for a great task and some stunning photos before the start… I had a great start and for most of the way to TP1 there was no one in front of me – that’s a first ๐ But after the second TP I, along with quite a few others made…
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Good news and bad news…
Well the good news is that we’ve had our first task today, a 63km race to goal starting at 1600. The bad news is that it was stopped before anyone made it to the fourth turnpoint because of difficulties in getting a helicopter to two injured pilots who had crashed on the ridge behind takeoff.…
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Comp day 3 – Sod’s Law
Briefing at 1000 – sunny but too windy. Rebriefing at 1300ย sunny but windy and forecast to remain windy. 1400 – first gliders appear above St Vincent. 1415 – ten gliders above St Vincent, climbing high. 1430 – we’re at St Vincent preparing to take off, and by 1500 I had climbed out level with…
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Comp Day 2… no task, but not no flying!
Briefing at 9am then rebriefing at 11am… Sunny but too windy so team Avon decide to hire some mountain bikes and take the easy way up the hill (ie. chairlift) for a afternoon’s biking. Amazingly there were no incidents or injuries despite the fast decents on gravelly tracks. We had actually seen quite a few…
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Non-flying days aren’t always bad…
So I guess yesterday (Saturday) was the official practice day however it was windy and cloudy and generally not looking ideal for flying. So after a quick conflab we decided some retail therapy at the Decathlon store in Dignes les Bains was in order… A couple ofย hours later we were all fully therapied out…
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Exorcising the demons…
On Friday 5th August I finally got to fly after not flying for over a month during which time the wider paragliding community suffered its blackest week ever first with Xavier Murillo dying in Chile followed shortly by the deaths of the two pilots flying in the World Championships in Piedrahita. Even though I was…