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Friday night: six a side soccer with the Turkeys.
Saturday morn: Park run, 8km in 36 and a bit minutes.
Saturday 11:30am: paragliding at Merewether. Not a good flight. More of a hopeful sleddy than anything else. It seemed fairly strong at home but at the beach it was almost still. The faintest puff coming up the slope. I figured I'd risk it and got the wing out.
First launch attempt was pitiful. There was barely enough breeze to keep the wing aloft.
Second time around was a little better and I actually got flying.
There were a couple of hangies having lessons and had landed down the slope so I headed for the east face.
Made a single pass along the face but was getting nowhere so I made one turn at the northern end of the cliff and headed for the beach.
Packed glider up on beach and walked up the bloody hill. Flight time about 7 minutes. The hill looked like a hangie graveyard as there just wasn't enough windy goodness to keep anyone flying.
Saturday afternoon 2:30: Wind seemed to pick up. So after a nap and a swim, I headed to Bar Beach. Parked car at top of car park and walked, yet again to the lookout along the Anzac Walk.
There seemed to be more sufficient wind now and a hangie was setting up. I jumped the fence and got setup as fast as was comfortably possible as there seemed to be a bunch of tandem customers getting ready to deploy.
Launched glider nicely. Punted around for a bit then the hangie launched. The breeze wasn't overly strong so I was staying just above launch height. While there was just 2 of us it wasn't a problem but before too long we had 2 solo paragliders, a hangie, 2 tandem paragliders with third getting ready to launch, plus another hangie on launch also.
The lift band was really tight and I was getting waked to buggery by the tandems. After about 30 minutes I headed for the park. Landed OK but came in a bit hot and fell over. Packed up and walked back to car in car park!
Friday night: six a side soccer with the Turkeys.
Saturday morn: Park run, 8km in 36 and a bit minutes.
Saturday 11:30am: paragliding at Merewether. Not a good flight. More of a hopeful sleddy than anything else. It seemed fairly strong at home but at the beach it was almost still. The faintest puff coming up the slope. I figured I'd risk it and got the wing out.
First launch attempt was pitiful. There was barely enough breeze to keep the wing aloft.
Second time around was a little better and I actually got flying.
There were a couple of hangies having lessons and had landed down the slope so I headed for the east face.
Made a single pass along the face but was getting nowhere so I made one turn at the northern end of the cliff and headed for the beach.
Packed glider up on beach and walked up the bloody hill. Flight time about 7 minutes. The hill looked like a hangie graveyard as there just wasn't enough windy goodness to keep anyone flying.
Saturday afternoon 2:30: Wind seemed to pick up. So after a nap and a swim, I headed to Bar Beach. Parked car at top of car park and walked, yet again to the lookout along the Anzac Walk.
There seemed to be more sufficient wind now and a hangie was setting up. I jumped the fence and got setup as fast as was comfortably possible as there seemed to be a bunch of tandem customers getting ready to deploy.
Launched glider nicely. Punted around for a bit then the hangie launched. The breeze wasn't overly strong so I was staying just above launch height. While there was just 2 of us it wasn't a problem but before too long we had 2 solo paragliders, a hangie, 2 tandem paragliders with third getting ready to launch, plus another hangie on launch also.
The lift band was really tight and I was getting waked to buggery by the tandems. After about 30 minutes I headed for the park. Landed OK but came in a bit hot and fell over. Packed up and walked back to car in car park!
