| Flight details: | Having been turned away from Bo Peep because the road was closed for the annual international luge event, I arrived at Firle about midday to a howling wind: 20-25 and gusting to 32 mph. Miles, Paul and David were already there. I didn't fancy even rigging, let alone flying, and at one point later in the afternoon nearly decided to go home. But we hung around, procrastinating over whether to rig, no-one wanting to be first. John Birchall arrived a bit later. Eventually, around 5:00 p.m. the gusts started to subside and I thought, sod it, the worst that can happen is I have to de-rig without flying. We launched about 6:00 into buoyant but now relatively smooth air and had a nice hour or so soaring the ridge from Beddingham to Bo Peep, landing just after 7:30 and packing up as the sun set. |
