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Saturday, April 28, 2012

Weird Day

The forecasts have been tricky for a while now and today was no different.  With all the indications for a NE going ENE and picking up quickly there was a chance for Carbis but only a short one for the Paras and who knows for the hangers.

Whilst inland the wind was a definite East and picking up early reports from Carbis were smack on and not enough!  Still in the end we went for it fully expecting a no fly day.  On arrival the early birds who had been there for a couple of hours were just inflating their canopies for their first flights of the day, good timing or what!  We quickly got in the air to join them with he view that it would blow out early.  By the time Joe H (Helston) arrived conditions were still good but picking up a little so we wasted no time in getting him into the air for his final hill conversion flight.

Joe had a great time in stonking lift mixing it with the others before coming in for a nice top landing as things picked up a little more.  Well done on finishing your school training Joe now you really start to learn how to fly!

After a bit of  a break Joe was ready to go again and despite the windy enough conditions got off OK, within a couple of beats the wind went due east the lift disappeared and Joe went to the beach, nice.  At this point most gave up and headed home whilst a few remained mainly hangies who had already rigged to see what would happen.

By the time Joe was back up the wind came back on but now breezy to say the least.  I took the chance to test fly James C's new Sport 2 135 and had a ball before popping back in on top to take a tandem Hg up.  Rob (Falmouth) had decided to upgrade his Tow Voucher to a hill one and had a great time on the hangy as we flew the cliffs in super lift. The landing was a bit of a challenge as the wind shear was unusually high but nothing we could not deal with.

James whilst keen to fly held back as conditions were more than enough for low airtimers and Andy R reinforced the point with an unusual landing.  Big Grey looked even bigger as he flew about on the ASKA  rounding off a really weird day in my book.
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