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Wednesday, March 27, 2013

Tucking and Diving at Carbis

With a Tandem Pg flight planned we headed to Carbis B early arriving on site at 08.30 just behind Nigel W and at the same time as Steve M who did a quick spot of topiary on the "car park" (much appreciated by all) before walking to the front.

It was bright and sunny but light so whilst flyable you had to keep a close eye on the gulls to go up and a close eye on the sink cycles not to go down!  Michel K (still raving about the Delta 2) joined us after an hour or so and finally Al K made up a full contingent.  Conditions slowly improved but not good enough for us to encourage a 5 hour round trip for the Tandem so they will come another day.  A good slot saw us all playing with bits of lift before the cold got to us and we nipped in for a warm up.

20 minutes on the ground got the blood moving and with Al and Michel doing well over Carbis kaz and myself opted for one last flight before heading of to the dentists...... Looking at the sea you could see various patches of wind coming in which we concluded could well spell good lift so I wasted no time in getting off, ideal steady lift soon saw me hundreds of feet up and whilst Kaz got set to go a nice core saw me circling up to a couple of grand (nice but cold).  The drift was due east up top so something strange was going on and with large areas of lift it was easy to get about.


Kaz launches at Carbis before the excitement

Kaz launched and I  watched her along with Al and Michel who had come back from Carbis scratch the ridge, strange.  next thing Kaz nips in for a top landing and change of underwear having experienced a nice frontal collapse as the wind swung off to the east down low making conditions uncomfortable .......  Thinking an XC trip may not be wise i flew over to the Hayle side before losing height to land in an easterly breeze at launch.  A few lessons learnt / re learnt and especially just how quickly conditions can change ........ even when it looks good for the guys up high don't get to excited as down low it may well be a different story even only 5 minutes after someone else has launched ...... Will Geordie Have His Cat Aboard Today .......

Quote of the day "it's a
bit rough"
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2 comments :

Unknown said...

scarey things those paragliders, Kat looks better prone anyway, in a hang glider,

30 March 2013 at 01:02
Phippsy said...

You right there Kev, on both counts :))

30 March 2013 at 09:48

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