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Gliders => Slope Soaring => Topic started by: Happy Days on April 21, 2013, 11:10:42 AM

Title: 21st April, a Sunny day with westerly winds
Post by: Happy Days on April 21, 2013, 11:10:42 AM: Sunny blue sky, and gentle westerly breeze equals a few hours on the Big L. :D
Who’s going to join me?
Title: 21st April, a Sunny day with westerly winds
Post by: Keith on April 21, 2013, 16:33:03 PM: That was a good day :-)
Title: 21st April, a Sunny day with westerly winds
Post by: bren.p on April 21, 2013, 17:07:22 PM: Enjoyed today immensly good fun and great time had by all :D
Title: 21st April, a Sunny day with westerly winds
Post by: Keith on April 21, 2013, 18:23:02 PM: pressure on now bren you only have a few hours to sort your skua
where is our little guru he has a load of pics from today ???
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Post by: bren.p on April 21, 2013, 18:28:35 PM: Ahhhh dont presure me :D I cant wait for payday;-)
Title: 21st April, a Sunny day with westerly winds
Post by: Keith on April 21, 2013, 22:27:23 PM: C,mon keith whats taking you with the pics and story of today ???? :shock: :lol: :lol:
Title: 21st April, a Sunny day with westerly winds
Post by: Happy Days on April 21, 2013, 22:33:01 PM: (http://www.gliderireland.net/forum/images/uploads/Happy%20Days/Lovely%20day%20to%20be%20sure.jpg)

A pretty good time we had, didn’t we lads!
Big Keith, Elaine, little Keith (me), & Brendan. What a foursome! :twisted: (……..NO, not that sort of foursome you perverts! :oops: :oops: )

Big Keith decided to fly his Zagi on the westerly 20’ish Kph winds

(http://www.gliderireland.net/forum/images/uploads/Happy%20Days/High%20Zagi.jpeg)

While Brendan managed to keep my Skua airborne in the blue skies over Big L. this afternoon. Well, most of the time he did! (Doesn't he look such a cool dude in those glasses and cap, Don't you think :P Er, perhaps on second thoughts........)
(http://www.gliderireland.net/forum/images/uploads/Happy%20Days/Brendan.jpg)

We were all enjoying ourselves so much that Big Keith’s better half, Elaine, was sufficiently impressed to ask to have a go. Good woman yourself Elaine.
(http://www.gliderireland.net/forum/images/uploads/Happy%20Days/Elaine.jpg)
...............Take note Roisin and Diane :wink: (Okay, Elaine didn’t actually fly any models, but she will do!)

The sun shone, the wind whistled, the birds twittered, Brendan complained that there wasn’t enough lift :roll: and B. Keith complained there was too much. :!: (Normal day at the slope) Here we are enjoying ourselves:- The Three Amigos? or the Good the Bad and the Ugly!? :?: You decide for yourselves

(http://www.gliderireland.net/forum/images/uploads/Happy%20Days/The%20good%20the%20bad%20and%20the%20ugly%201.jpg)
Then came the hail stones. :( Great balls of ice falling at 20m/sec. Dam painful! We all ran for the cars! But then the sun came out again. Oh, the joys of slope soaring.
B. Keith conjured up the courage to attempt a proper approach and landing, (rather than the previous method he’d been using of simply ditching his combat wing into mother earth. His first attempt was,…..how can I say this nicely??? Well let’s just say it wasn’t very successful.

(http://www.gliderireland.net/forum/images/uploads/Happy%20Days/Stuck.jpg)

But his second attempt was really rather good! Mean while Brendan had been learning how to ‘bank & yank’ the Skua. The two of them will be fighting combat soon.

All in all it was a very pleasent Sunday afternoon. We must do it again sometime. :D

Keith (Little version)
ps thanks to B Keith and Elain for some of the pictures. (Oppps that should read Elaine :oops: )
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Post by: Keith on April 21, 2013, 23:16:28 PM: :lol: i even got to do a bit of tree climbing today :lol:
Title: 21st April, a Sunny day with westerly winds
Post by: stephen.shannon on April 22, 2013, 09:59:23 AM: Did you get it back ya muppet? Or do you need me to come and get it for you ;-)
Title: 21st April, a Sunny day with westerly winds
Post by: Happy Days on April 22, 2013, 10:47:09 AM: Yeah, you’re right Steve! B Keith does look a bit like Fozzie Bear, doesn’t he. :D And even more so when he’s up a tree!! :lol: :lol:

(You can just see him in the bottom left of the last picture)

Sensible Keith
(Who keeps his feet on the ground.) :wink:
Title: 21st April, a Sunny day with westerly winds
Post by: andrew wallace on April 22, 2013, 16:48:44 PM: Yooooooooo :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap: :clap:
Good to see some one else in the trees
Title: 21st April, a Sunny day with westerly winds
Post by: Keith on April 22, 2013, 21:34:02 PM: Quote from: "stephen.shannon"
Did you get it back ya muppet? Or do you need me to come and get it for you ;-)

No your ok stephen my supernatural (silverback) tree climbing abilities kicked in .. even before bren.p found the stick i was half way up 8) 8)
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Post by: Keith on April 23, 2013, 13:01:08 PM: There was good gusts up there yesterday evening .. You missed a good evenings flying Bren.p 8)
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Post by: bren.p on April 23, 2013, 23:00:33 PM: :( yep I missed not but been able to get there but I will be there for ya Keith just in
case you head for the trees again :wink:
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Post by: Keith on April 24, 2013, 10:38:53 AM: :D thanks Bren :!:
Title: 21st April, a Sunny day with westerly winds
Post by: Freedom Flyer on May 02, 2013, 15:02:19 PM: Nice Photos, maybe one day I'll get out :cry: Never seems to be time when I come home on my days off. I did get permission to fly on some slopes while I'm on my work rotation away from home. Problem is won't be anyone there to take any pics. But I can take some pics of the slopes. Thanks for sharing your outing. Tracy.