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Tuesday, November 10, 2009

Sucked off at St Agnes

The lift moves in as the smoke begins to get sucked out to sea

Stunning rainbow, looked much better in real life!

looking back at take off from "well out"

Time to get down as things begin to get really black and lifty

Having been out on Monday to Godrevy for a flight in the UK sunshine, all be it a brief one I thought I'd try again at St Agnes. It was an interesting afternoon with the wind non existent to light and across the hill on arrival but soon picking up and moving on as a large cloud street moved in.
Cruising the ridge in gentle but steady lift saw me up to 300' ato as the street got nearer. With smoke inland now being drawn upwind into the cloud it was a fair bet that it would be working. Sure enough next thing steady lift all the way as i pointed out to sea to take some piccies of a stunning rainbow.
Approaching cloudbase the lift got really strong and with it raining downwind and pretty much all around it was time to land. Burning off the height I arrived back on Terra firma landing in a 6mph wind at 90 degrees to the slope. Within two minutes there was no wind at all. Not a day to get it wrong on !

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Unknown said...

Nice flight and pic's mate, I still can not believe some people pack up flying in the winter. They don't know what they are missing.

11 November 2009 at 18:30

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