Young Love in the morning
After the rain came the sun and what a
lovely romantic sunrise it was. Kaz moved into fried eggs which to
be fair seemed more popular than boiled ones, is this the start of a
new era??
The breakfast show
With a variable forecast we opted to
head stright up to the west launch where we duly arrived to find we
had it to ourselves, but not for long! Those that were keen to fly
got sorted and Peachy kindly offered to drive down so I got the
glider out for the first time this trip.
A man on a mission .....
Martin commits aviation
A few piots took off some went down and
a couple hung about just below launch in light lift. That was enough
to tempt Carl who decided the only way to get in front of me was on a
Paraglider …...
He did a great launch and was soon
floating about above launch looking down on everyone including the
Pod Gods, nice ;) With a few Vultures circling off to the left I
joined in the fun and found some punchy if slightly bouncy lift to
play with. Colin, Martin and Simon were soon off as the launch began
to fill up.
Conditions never got that good and it
was not long before pilots were heading down. Carl and Colin made an
early run for the noticeboard field to beat the crowds. Every picture
tells a story and a video tells an even better one, more luck than
judgement comes to mind, still alls well that ends well.
Flying without wings
With a steady stream of pilots heading
out things got a bit busy on approach with a brief spell when Adie
would have been in his element as an Air Traffic Controller ! With
us all saftely down Peachy arrived followed by news from the hill that
the other car was heading down as conditions deteriated.
The wind filled in resulting in several
pilots not making it in so we headed off for a coffee in the new Cafe
nearby.
Ant at work
Decision time and with it picking up
and those in the air pretty much stationary we opted for a trip to El
Bosque for hopefully lighter winds. 45 minutes later and we are
there, sure enough the winds are lighter but well off, still it may
come on in line with the clouds …...... some horse whispering, ant
inspecting, catapult practice and general mucking about did not
convince the wind to play ball so at 17.00 we headed back.
The horse whisperer
Puppies
One car made afinal sweep of the hill
on the west launch but it was still strong and off so we called it a
day and went for an early meal and late drink. What will tomorrow
bring ???????
Quote of the day “ it's a little on the short side"
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