Free Flying on The South Downs
Flight
| Flight details | |||||||||||||
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| Title: | Bo Peep micro triangle | ||||||||||||
| Site: | Bo Peep | ||||||||||||
| Pilot: | John Porter | ||||||||||||
| Date of flight: | 2nd April 2012 | ||||||||||||
| Wing type: | Paraglider | ||||||||||||
| Flight details: | Launched after picking a gap in traffic, turned left towards car park got into thermal and eventually got almost to base which was around 2800 feet. Went out past A27 then nearly to Drusilla's roundabout then back to hill where I misjudged my height and glide angle and slope landed at eastern end of ridge. |
| Cross-country league entry | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Flight type: | Flat Triangle | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Takeoff: | 50.8205,0.129125 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| To: | 50.819167,0.132417 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| To: | 50.830083,0.119042 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| To: | 50.829042,0.157667 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Finish at: | 50.819458,0.13525 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Landing place: | Bo Peep slope landing | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Witness: | Turnpoints taken from KML file | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 6.14 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Score | 9.21 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| GPS evidence from: | 2012-04-01_09-39 Bo Peep micro triangle.kml |
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