Combe 24 June Mini triangle
I arrived on the hill with an hour's grace as had to get home for lunch and was running a little short of credits as had had a good flight on Saturday, my plan was to use the light winds to try to fly home to Kintbury.
Some of the usual suspects were about and there was a generally jovial mood on the hill. I got myself ready pretty quickly and almost as soon as I was ready a nice cycle came through.
I took off and saw a Nova to my right climbing well while all those who'd turned left were sinking out. I followed and the 2 of us climbed together towards base although the Nova left he lift at around 800m, I stuck with it and slowly got to around 1300m I then headed off on glide towards Kintbury, slowing down to make the most of any lift that I hit along the way.
I then took off a glove turned, got my mobile out to tell Leanda that I would be flying over shortly, only to bimble into a thermal that peaked at just over 5m/s as I was trying to dial with one glove resting on my flightdeck, I then had a comedy ride back to base holding onto my phone in my gloveless hand, hanging on to the brake handle desperately trying not to drop it.
As soon as I went on glide I quickly stuffed my phone back in its pocket and quickly put my glove back on my hand, headed off towards Shalbourne, but not daring to risk the wrath of my wife headed back to the hill landing 45 minutes after I took off.
Richard Barber
http://www.paraglidingforum.com/leonardo/flight/215994
Some of the usual suspects were about and there was a generally jovial mood on the hill. I got myself ready pretty quickly and almost as soon as I was ready a nice cycle came through.
I took off and saw a Nova to my right climbing well while all those who'd turned left were sinking out. I followed and the 2 of us climbed together towards base although the Nova left he lift at around 800m, I stuck with it and slowly got to around 1300m I then headed off on glide towards Kintbury, slowing down to make the most of any lift that I hit along the way.
I then took off a glove turned, got my mobile out to tell Leanda that I would be flying over shortly, only to bimble into a thermal that peaked at just over 5m/s as I was trying to dial with one glove resting on my flightdeck, I then had a comedy ride back to base holding onto my phone in my gloveless hand, hanging on to the brake handle desperately trying not to drop it.
As soon as I went on glide I quickly stuffed my phone back in its pocket and quickly put my glove back on my hand, headed off towards Shalbourne, but not daring to risk the wrath of my wife headed back to the hill landing 45 minutes after I took off.
Richard Barber
http://www.paraglidingforum.com/leonardo/flight/215994
