| Flight details: | 11th Nov 2013 - flying day 2 in Algodonales. After yesterday's lows and highs http://www.shgc.org.uk/node/12368 the mood was positive plus weather showed all indications that it plays on our side.
Start at westerly take-off was easy, climbing up was even easier - straight into thermal and after 10 minutes of circling I found myself at 2050m (+1150) under nice classical cloud which keep sucking. I decided to politely decline final 50 or so meters and left thermal. Again it was time to think! And here we go�
- I want to go to Ronda! :)
- right - wind is in right direction, I am much higher than yesterday, clouds suck
- what could possibly go wrong today!?? :)
Everything was perfect - the only worrying sign was an absence of gaggle and just couple of gliders already up front and 2-3 were at the cloud base and didn't rush to go anywhere... Rest of the pilots not yet started or still climbing underneath. All these rise a moment of hesitation and I think for a second � maybe it would be good to go along the ridge to that nice cloud and come back to this cloud and see what these 2-3 will do...
But it was just a moment of hesitation :) - from other side of the mind Ronda was crying loudly �I am here! Come to me!� So I set off to the east. Cross valley, reached know thermal point �the stadium�, found thermal and gained 300m. But it was tough game � too narrow, too inclined. I struggle to stay inside and finally lost it. It might be just that it ended as Delta-2 which sharing thermal with me leave as well. However I left downwind to the left and Delta-2 headed to the right in direction of nice slope of Twin Peaks. 20 minutes later I was on the ground. During that time I found moment to make another mistake � I didn't go close to the last reasonably high hill in front if me. Instead I landed to something I thought was a bar... no it wasn't :)
I got to the road, sent message to retrieve driver and had a dilemma � just sit and wait or try to do something. I de |
