Free Flying on The South Downs
Flight
| Flight details | |||||||||||||
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| Title: | Short hop to Shortgate | ||||||||||||
| Site: | Mount Caburn | ||||||||||||
| Pilot: | Garry Taylor | ||||||||||||
| Date of flight: | 20th September 2015 | ||||||||||||
| Wing type: | Paraglider | ||||||||||||
| Flight details: | Initial climb to base at only 1,900 with Vincent, Ed, John T, and Boris. I pushed on with Ed and we maintained in gentle thermals at about 1,700. Ed went South of the woods at Laughton while I headed North in attempt to reach a cloud street being used by several sailplanes. I failed to connect and landed at Shortgate. |
| Cross-country league entry | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Flight type: | Flight with 3 turnpoints | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Takeoff: | 50.860033,0.04945 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| To: | 50.863967,0.057267 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| To: | 50.861333,0.049533 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| To: | 50.895317,0.1295 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Finish at: | 50.921383,0.127733 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Landing place: | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Witness: | Turnpoints taken from IGC file | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 11.00 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Score | 11.00 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| GPS evidence from: | XC.014049.igc |
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