Flight

Flight details
Title: Hop to Hope Bowdler
Site:Long Mynd
Pilot:Andrew Craig
Date of flight:8th August 2009
Wing type:Paraglider
Flight details:
Up in a big thermal with lots of pilots, all quite spread out in multiple cores. Didn't quite make base, had a sinky glide over the back. Found another weak climb just south of Church Stretton, and three more gliders joined me. But it seemed to peter out, or perhaps I left it too early. I flew over a pilot who'd just top-landed on the hill W of Church Stretton. How annoyed he'd be if I skied out over his head, I thought. But I didn't. Just squeaked out the 5k needed to score in the BCC. Still struggling to upload GPS tracks to here...
Cross-country league entry
Flight type:Open Distance XC
Takeoff:52.5217,-2.883967
Finish at:52.523317,-2.791233
Landing place:Near Hope Bowdler
Witness:Start and finish taken from IGC fil
Distance6.30 km
Score6.30 km
GPS evidence from:XC.007856.igc
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