| Flight details: | the best of a handful of not great flights during a, frankly, bloody awful fortnight of weather in Spain over Easter
a nice-looking sky with some streeting ahead of launch, got off in a sunny spell then about 40mins of bumpy 1-to-2-up's before connecting with something stronger off the sunny end of the ridge which took me to base. pushed out in front following the edge of the cloud, dipping back under now & then to top up before a sinky glide to connect with the next one in the street
by this time I was bloody freezing & remembering that my harness isn't particularly comfortable for anything over an hour; also that my venerable DHV1 (Mojo1) makes glacial progress into wind & that I don't really remember how to do anything useful with my GPS-Vario. so, like a muppet, I burned off nearly 4 grand & landed, mostly to warm up
I really want to fly some decent XC this year, so morals of the story:
1. always dress for altitude
2. get a comfortable harness
3. buy something with a little more performance than an 8-year-old DHV1 wing
4. RTFM for the GPS-Vario
in the end I got a 7km FAI triangle (not sure why it's not showing up as that) which was some, small, consolation for a pretty dissapointing fortnight. the guiding outfit tried hard, but the weather just wasn't playing dice
anyone got a large Verso or a mid-range modern XL DHV1-2 they're looking to sell?
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