Flight

Flight details
Title: How to not do 173km
Site:Milk Hill
Pilot:Greg Hamerton
Date of flight:22nd July 2012
Wing type:Paraglider
Flight details:
Got up with first gaggle, led the charge only to find I was Johnny No Mates a few minutes later as gaggle went for signs of weak cloud and I went for high ground. Was at similar position to where gaggle came through later but saw a massive airfield with three runways directly downwind. Didn't appear on my airspace map! Not wanting to be the first muppet to close the site due to busting the nearest airspace to Milk Hill, I stuffed the bar and went crosswind. Found out later it is one of those airfields that is not an airfield. Used by microlights. Bah. Pilot I was flying with did 173km. double bah. had long walk back to think it over. Need to fly with printed airspace map - little GPS screen just no good for inflight route planning.
Cross-country league entry
Flight type:Flight with 3 turnpoints
Takeoff:51.372639,-1.854987
To:51.368602,-1.860061
To:51.372424,-1.853615
To:51.370885,-1.860624
Finish at:51.502584,-1.755539
Landing place:
Witness:Turnpoints taken from KML file
Distance18.08 km
Score18.08 km
GPS evidence from:2012-07-22_XC_greg_milkhill-airfield.kml
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