With the christmas weekend due to be stormy I thought I'd "make hay while the sun shines" so to speak, and get a little flying in today.
Conditions were very light on the Big L with just 7 - 15 Kph breezes drifting in over the west slope. Mist kept coming and going but I managed to get my much scared 2mtr polyhedral 'Riser' to 'rise' to the occasion. In truth I doubt that I flew more than 400ft above my head, there was a low blanket of cloud. I have no way of knowing anyway, only guessing. So far I haven't been slapped in hand cuffs so I'll consider myself to have got away with it on this occasion. I noted to myself that despite all the predictions of doom & gloom in resent times, slope soaring remains alive and well in Ireland.
I'd taken my 2mtr powered foamy with me (just in case) so having taken it all the way to the mountain I thought I'd best allow it to 'do it's thing.' So in went a Li-Po and up went the model. (In the air I mean, not up in flames!
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Once again it was easy flying on the gentle lift which came & went a few times but in fact I didn't need to use the motor at all. She drifted about the sky for 15 minutes before sliding to a halt on the slightly bumpy, and very wet, grass.
After a break for refreshments a further flight or two was enjoyed before the temperature began to drop as the sun fell lower in the southern sky. By packing up time I hadn't performed a single roll or even a loop but it had been nice to get up the mountain after, what must have been, at least a month or possibly more. It's not until I have an break from flying that I realize how much I enjoy it.
Keith
