Flight

After all the time spent learning to aerotow I finally managed to get away today and put in a few miles - not many - but each one felt like a gift... made all the better by being in the company of Ozzie.

http://youtu.be/1jPyVmX5M7w

The day seemed to be a race between us and the sea air - people were up at the farm getting the microlite out and the sail rigged - almost everything was done nice and fast...

The slight race to get our names on the log quickly sorted the launch order, luckily I was near the top... Ozzie launched just before me so after a rather sporting first few hundred feet, with my new glider for the first time, I released at 2000ft and aimed straight for where I could see Ozzie circling.

Made a slight error thinking he was coming over to wave when actually I was getting in the way of him climbing, but since I found this out when Oz was holding a beer I bought him it did not seem so bad... then - sorry Oz -

The flight started ok but the lift promised on the lapse rate charts seemed to be elsewhere and once we started to journey it became progressively more difficult to find and use so it did not take too long before I had to select a field.

My landing was pants - undershooting the upslope I was aiming for ended ignominiously, almost, in a ditch which had an almost invisible electric fence running along it - one day Ill have a good landing...

Thanks to Steve Marnier for kindly picking us both up from our various fields...