Free Flying on The South Downs
Flight
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| Title: | Another Accidental FAI Triangle | ||||||||||||
| Site: | Devils Dyke | ||||||||||||
| Pilot: | Martin Long | ||||||||||||
| Date of flight: | 18th February 2016 | ||||||||||||
| Wing type: | Paraglider | ||||||||||||
| Flight details: | Conditions earlier were strong and windy. The flight I had done an hour before had got the pulse going but this flight was done in much more leisurely and calm conditions. I never done a triangle before, but like buses, I did two on one day. Wide lines of light lift had formed upwind of launch and I tried to push to Henfield before realising the gliders that were marking the lift low out front were pilots with skills and hot wings that would leave me red faced on the ground. |
| Cross-country league entry | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Flight type: | FAI Triangle | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Takeoff: | 50.8866,-0.214183 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| To: | 50.888217,-0.209067 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| To: | 50.884817,-0.2296 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| To: | 50.89825,-0.236967 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Finish at: | 50.8866,-0.214167 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Witness: | Turnpoints taken from KML file | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 5.53 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Score | 8.85 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| GPS evidence from: | 2016-02-18_14-59.kml |
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