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Jonny Member Member#: 118 Location: Registered: 28-01-2003 Diary Entries: 1 |
22nd May 2004 Paragliding - Gliding: Corndon, nr. Churchstoke Wind Direction: NE Wind Stength: 5mph Surf / Sea State: n/a Air Temperature: 15C Sea Temperature: n/a Weather: Sunshine, overdevelopin Cumulus Max Speed: Distance Covered: Hanggliding Decided to head of with Jeff towards the Mynd way with a 2 hour drive and was debatin whether to fly from Sarn or Corndon. Heard the wind was a bit of from Sarn so drove up the horrible track to Corndon. Got there and there were about 10 other Paragliders and 6 other Hang gliders there which is a bit of a rarity gettin so many hanggliders in one place. The sky was looking great with pleanty of nice cumulus around with little spread out so got rigged up and a quite a few paragliders and 1 or 2 hang gliders had already gone xc. Eventually got rigged up and the sky was overdeveloping meaning the lift would be very patchy. everyone was startin to stuggle and quite a few went down. It was one of those days where the winds were very light and it was a struggle to stay up in the patchy lift. Some people took of, circled in a few small thermals and then came to top land before the heavy sink arrived. My time came to launch and suddenly the paragliders were circling around in the thermal activity. I decided to go for it and launched; soon as I took of my vario went dead due to forgetting to charge up the batteries the night before, Doh!. It was a case of using my intutition searchin for the lift. Caught a few weak thermals and managed to get 200 foot or so above the ridge, circled around for a good 5 mins searching for the lift and then came the cycle of heavy sink so decided to quickly top land. All in all, it was a great day and good to get a flight under my belt having not flown since last August, especially pleasing is that I managed quite well without my vario and managed to stay up when some people with varios went down into the valley below. Probably not worth the 2 hour trip to the english/welsh border but fying can be a frustrating sport. The furthest distance a hangie (Miles Davidson) British team pilot got was only 12k which shows it wasn't a brilliant day after all. Hopefully the next few days will continue to give some brilliant flying conditions. Giving it a 4 star as it was great to get some flying in and on a new site |
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