It was Bruce, Gary and me hang gliding and Tom and Marcel paragliding. Tom and Marcel launched first around 1:50 and flew for hours. I launched around three followed by Bruce and Gary. Winds were light 4-7mph with periods of 1-2mph. I launched into a tiny thermal and thought I would immediately get up but found sink as soon as I turned. Got low and headed out but caught my first thermal 450 below launch and managed to inch my way to 1900 over before loosing the lift. After heading out to land again I had my second even lower save about 750 below launch just over the LZ to 350 over before loosing it for the day. Thirty two minutes total for a nice cool day.
Joe
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Marcel Dettling
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The secrets...
The secrets: 1) chemical handwarmers that you put into your mittens, so cold hands are not an issue. 2) 7 layers of clothing for the upper body plus a pair of windbreaker pants from Tom, so the cold in general is not an issue. 3) my new glider, the Mamboo, and tiger Loecky in the harness, both unmistakably telling me where the thermals are and wanting to stay up, so I managed to climb out from waaaayyy (ok, 350ft at most) below launch three times.
Great day, several thermals of the 5m/s class, but mostly very narrow lift surrounded by a lot of sink and also a bit rotory in general. The worst I had was 7m/s (1400fpm) down, just by going straight. And yeah, my vario said the temps were in the low 20ies.
Cheers,
Marcel
PS: Gary (I guess, was focused on my wing and launch, so it could have been Bruce or Joe...), you took some pictures/footage of my launch. Can I get a copy? Would be more than happy about it.
Great day, several thermals of the 5m/s class, but mostly very narrow lift surrounded by a lot of sink and also a bit rotory in general. The worst I had was 7m/s (1400fpm) down, just by going straight. And yeah, my vario said the temps were in the low 20ies.
Cheers,
Marcel
PS: Gary (I guess, was focused on my wing and launch, so it could have been Bruce or Joe...), you took some pictures/footage of my launch. Can I get a copy? Would be more than happy about it.
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Flying Lobster
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Flying Lobster
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Not me with the camera
Hi Marcel;
I think Joe was taking photos. I did not have my camera.
Gary
I think Joe was taking photos. I did not have my camera.
Gary
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