Then it was off to Bern for me for the evening of Aug 1 and some impressive fireworks, the next day I caught up with my cousin in Basle and spent a couple of days there as the weather was no good for flying.
Wednesday, August 15, 2007
Back again
The next day there were no clouds in the usual places and perhaps because there were more pilots and more pressure we made the mistake of lobbing off to early. Jas and I both found ourselves in the bombout down below. Its a tight little field with every imaginable hazard on all sides, roads, buildings, a railway, high tension power lines, paraglider pilots.... With the Perfex its easy, pull the bar in to waste energy so I had no trouble. Jas had to flare hard to stop his glider in the limited space. The whole time Jas flew his huge topless aeros like a champ and made every one of his basebar landings look easy. Go Jas!
Allrichtung
or Allrecht or something like that anyway. It was down the end of the valley and where we landed. An idilic green meadow to pack up in and it was 25'C in the sun and warm. It is hard on the perfex rigging it on concrete as at this T/O you can already see marks on the undersurface...
Otherwise I am getting along just fine with it, its great to fly..
That shot!
Yes, its the obligatory head shot with the show covered mountains in the background. It was cold, really really cold. I am still suffering from freezing myself solid during this flight...
I got up!
On a day when there were hundreds of paragliders and perhaps 15 Hang Gliders and around 20 sailplanes all sharing the same sky. The guy in the sailplane with the red wingtips was just having fun....
The view the other way
When it works, photostich really can make some nice panorama images. If you have a big monitor and a fast internet connection check out the originals on my Flikr site, some are 20,000 by 2000 pixels!
Eggishorn
After getting up way to early for me and then catching the cable car to the top of the Eggishorn together with all the extra work required to get the gliders brought up too... We made it. Jason admires the view!
Fiesche
The next day we drove to Fiesche, we spent the night with a cool local pilot called Stefan and the next day we went mountain flying...
Woo Hoo
Of course here is the obligatory shot of me at cloud base with Lake Lausanne in the background!
Cloudbase is cold
Very cold here in CH. Nice to get up level with the tops for the first time though.
Evening Fly
The wind was all over the place on T/O and we played a game of chasey moving our gliders from one side of the hill to the other trying to get a breeze in our faces for T/O. Thomas went and then the wind switched and we waited for ages before getting off. We both got hammered in the bown and then found a nice thermal over the power lines and were at cloudbase together before long. A nice view of the lake from cloudbase!
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