Gliders > Slope Soaring
First NIMSA event of 2011
billscottni:
Four of us managed the epic climb up Craigy Hill today to fly slope for an enjoyable couple of hours. All a bit rusty, and it showed in some of he flying and landing! :lol:
https://picasaweb.google.com/nimsafly/Slope130211#
Couldn't work out how to embed the Picassa Slideshow :?:
andrew wallace:
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glad you got to fly bill
wish now i had went :!:
Happy Days:
Well done lads, :clap: Hope you’re getting some practice in for the PSS next month. :wink:
Glad you had some wind to play with. I was up on Big L today and spent two hours scratching around for lift before swearing and going home.
How did you get on down south Ralph?
K.
billscottni:
Lift wasn't great and it came and went a bit throught the afternoon, but still an enjoyable afternoon. :D
Problem we had was the hill is quite a strenuous climb which put a lot of our members off. And early in the week the wind was off it quite a bit, so Andrew didn't travel. On the day, it was almost head on :?
Happy Days:
Yea’, it’s sods law isn’t it Bill. :(
Similar situation here. Before I left home today I checked the Mt. Lienster weather webcam and it showed winds at 19Km/h. The wind history graph showed that it had been like that for some hours. When I got to the slope the speed dropped to less than 10km/h. Stayed around that speed all the time I was there, but when I got home I saw that it had picked up just after I’d left the slope. :evil: Grrrrr.
May be I should have gone to church this morning before setting off to the mountain!
(Nice pictures BTW Bill)
K.
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