moneylaws was nearly for the record today but failed

Post by **gary stenhouse** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 7:41 pm

well me and chris had a lovely flight playing cat and mouse, and sharewd some great lift togeather, fell short of the goal which was the van at powburn cafe. still great flight with me landing in the gardens of duncan davidson and chris landing at the saw mills.

cheers gary

Post by **chrisfozz** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 8:33 pm

my longest ever flight in Northumberland today, with a bit of help from gaz showing me where the best thermals were, good day out.
chris

Post by **gary stenhouse** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 8:53 pm

cracking flight chris, did you see the thermal direction and that last thermal i had, it was ene, you will have to come out early as it seems to be a bit of a bit of a duo act at the minute so you need to come out and play cheers gary

ron freeman · Post by **ron freeman** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 11:01 pm

Nice looking convergence in the pic above did anyone get into it ?

Post by **gary stenhouse** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 11:07 pm

unfortunately not but hit some very strange rough air near wooler, also if you look at my flight on google you can see when i got low my thermal direction goes from wnw ene

still great flight and even better flying with chris

ron freeman · Post by **ron freeman** » Fri Jul 10, 2009 11:39 pm

Sounds like you flew through it, the mixing air can get pretty rough on the line of warm & cold air. On the other side (cold side) the wind would be coming from the coast.

Onc'e through it its very hard to get back into the lift especially when the inland wind (opposing) is very light, this will give a very shallow wedge and unfortunatly our glide angle and top speed is not good enough to get back into the lifting side of the convergence.

Post by **chrisfozz** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 7:32 am

What. Couple of duffers, not being able to hook up with the see breeze covergence, if only....
Next time we'll do the sea breaze thingy, that should get us past the Cafe, then we could hook up with some low level wave off the back of West Hill, that should get us across the Pennines. A quick flip through the Mendips before finishing up with some pleasant evening soaring along the White Cliffs of Dover. Should be a piece of cake.

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RonDon · Post by **RonDon** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 9:06 am

Very well done Cris and Gary, you are definitely knocking on the door.

RonDon

Jim Bittlestone · Post by **Jim Bittlestone** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 10:01 am

Fantastic men, excellent flying. Having also flown yesterday I think that you got as much as you could out of the day, really rung its neck.
That convergence looks a long way away to me.
It will come, the right conditions on the right day is all it takes, you can only fly the conditions on the day.
Considering the size and position of the hill too.
I am currently considering you both for my (currently) vacant post of XC trainer, this is available as job share so no squabbling is necessary.
I am coming up to 12 months since I passed my CP shortly, which is the time I gave myself to start thinking about leaving the security of a guaranteed lift home.
So enjoy yourselves whilst you can

P.S. I only have 60 hours, as I had 4 months off in the winter, is this enough or do I need to hover over take off some more?

Cheers
Jim

Chris L · Post by **Chris L** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 12:03 pm

Go for it Jim

ron freeman · Post by **ron freeman** » Sat Jul 11, 2009 12:52 pm

Sounds like another good flight in the Cheviots.

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moneylaws was nearly for the record today but failed

moneylaws was nearly for the record today but failed

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