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| wtf! Are we mad? Who would fly in this...? |
The wave over the Pyrenees was impressive in a kind of 'wtf' are we doing going flying kind of way! But the weather God was certainly listening to Oriol and Tomas...We had a lovely day in spite of initial doubts of myself and Judith and Geoff!
You know how you make mental notes of things that you need to do, when youre messing with things - mental note to self !! - when you have been fiddling with your FLYMASTER remember to put the settings back to how they were!
I took off and into a great climb ...in silence. All the way up to the inversion in silence ... all the way down to nearly the ground with the vario in silence but my swearing and moaning getting louder and louder as I got more frustrated.
Just at the point when I had no chance of reaching anything that resembled an official landing field my 'internal vario' beeped - FLYmaster still silent...a few turns and i was able to see over the low hills in front and few more turns and some random hitting of buttons and beep, Beep, BEEEEEEEEPPPPPPP finally I found right key! Its not hard - its totally obvious but today 'my' circuits were shortcircuiting! And just to prove it ... as well as this mess I'd managed to put the batteries in my camera upside down! Thanks to Judith for the photos :)
Back up from nearly the ground to the top of the stack and more fun to be had!
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| Over the back of Bellmunt |
It seemed that this was my day for practicing all the things that i am truely bad at - soaring and weak climbs. After some playing around and a small detour into the valley I was at the landing field happy that i'd had a fun flight..... when buzzzzzzzz...bip. buzzzzzzz, bip bip buzzzzzzz the vario was starting to make happy sounds as I connected with the 2nd low save of my day.
Just 0.5m/s at first but then turning into a smooth solid climb back to take-off height.
Happy Days, but a last flight with my best winter playmate ... come back soon J!
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