| Flight details: | I went to the BCC at Bell Hill, Dorset. It was a bit windy and off to the north but the round went ahead.
I had a flight of about an hour but couldn't get anything good enough to go so I landed for a spot of lunch and then re launched. After a little while I got a climb that had me at about 700ft above take off going back over the ridge. It wasn't a monster climb but was fairly constant so I decided to stick with it as it was getting on and may be my last chance. I stuck with it as long as I could up to about 2500' I think when it died ( or I just lost it!). I glided down wind and got a little lift over Milton Abbas. It was weak and when I saw a buzzard I thought I was saved but it circled for a few seconds and then went.
Down wind glide again and I saw a small airstrip with a black hangar and a line of trees, I flew towards it and was quite low when I got there but fortunately it paid off and I climbed up again, but only about 1000' or so.
In front of me now was a whole lot of blue sky, not a Cu about so I headed across some brown fields towards a village but found nothing over the fields or village.
I landed in Milborne St. Andrew.
A chap from the South Devon club had landed nearby and when I went to see him he already had a retrieve on it's way. Result! |
