Flight

Flight details
Title: flying in india 80K
Site:India
Pilot:John Turczak
Date of flight:30th October 2013
Wing type:Paraglider
Flight details: 
Well..I came out to iNDIA to work on XC flights and today it all clicked together. The conditions were good, got away early, didn't hang around and got to Dharamsala and back. A round trip of about 80Km. 

XC dump tells me I did an 83Km xc. Fantastic. longest flight I have done. just over 4 and half hours of flying, much concentration. I am completely drained. 

I cocked up slightly towards the end and left a climb just a bit early otherwise I could have done more. But I am a very happy bunny with that flight. 

Spectacular scenery, varied conditions, sometimes tricky thermals, weak climbs and strong climbs. Overall a damned good day.

A couple of videos from the trip
http://youtu.be/ltN4DYlf_fE
http://youtu.be/2MweOE6jCy4
Cross-country league entry
Flight type:Flight with 3 turnpoints
Takeoff:32.055394,76.75185
To:32.098179,76.747131
To:32.225908,76.372673
To:32.10976,76.69846
Finish at:32.042063,76.708337
Landing place:
Witness:GPS file
Distance83.70 km
Score83.70 km
GPS evidence from:2013-10-30_04-30.kml
Comments
Luke Nichol30th Oct 06:26: wow, very nice John. We are having crap weather and 80mph wind while you have great weather and 80km xc's!!! Keep it up. Have you seen any hangies flying out there?
Robert Chisholm29th Oct 08:38: Send us all images if you can John, nice flight glad its all coming together Rob Chisholm www.freeflightbrighton.co.uk
John Turczak29th Oct 10:43: there is one hang glider pilot here. A guy from new zealand.
John Turczak29th Oct 10:45: I will post videos and photos when I get back. internet connection a bit slow for that from here. I have about 2 hours of video from today which I will have to cut down into something sensible.
Phil Ettinger30th Oct 04:53: Only half the flight done,could have returned alone that long ridge for 160k.slacker ;)
John Turczak5th Nov 04:16: A couple of videos from the trip http://youtu.be/ltN4DYlf_fE http://youtu.be/2MweOE6jCy4