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| Morning view from Flyspain's Eagles nest. |
The first flight I got today was a cracker as it included a couple of firsts. At one point I was 1800 feet above take off, over 3300 feet above the landing field, that is over a kilometer. Again I got a touch of the wobbles when I realised how high I was. While being bumped about I looked at my GPS to find I was in lift that was +4m/s.
At one point I was even joined by a hangglider who wanted a piece of my thermal. I watched him start circling below me and decided that he would soon out climb me so I did the correct thing and left him to it and rejoined the lift after he was above me. It wasn't long before the hangie moved on to look for other lift and I couldn't help chuckle when I saw him sinking in the distance as I continued to climb. I did eventually decide to leave the lift when I estimated I was about 200 feet below the cloud above me that was clearly the source of my lift. I thought it is all well and good climbing above everyone near me but I wasn't quite ready for the off chance I would be sucked into a cloud.
Best Flight yet, lots of curly thermalling
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My mate Karl was in the queue behind me at launch and took the following video.
Apart from giving you a feel for how busy take off can be you can see at 1:45 I launch with someone else's wing tucked in my lines. It was my fault as I should have checked everything was clear before launch and again while launching. I didn't even know what had happened until I landed and Karl told me (and yes I do look like a right dork!)
