Thursday 23rd March
YIPEEeeeeeeee!!!!!!!
Wind. s**t rain. The day started so well. Awake to a bright sky, 15mph wind,
full English (what else).
Chris and Ian found a new Southeast slope on their walkabout yesterday morning
near Porth Ceiriad and what do you know its a Southeast wind, excitedly (read
childlike, Andy Marshall was seen running around shouting wind, wind waving
his arms like a lunatic) we loaded the cars with slope soarers for a change,
and headed up to the slope.
Everyone had at least one good flying session before the spots of rain began. We were again joined by local flyer Brian Gowland who flew his Calypso.
Graham Stallard shown here chatting to Bill & Ian whilst
providing a model park for the more accurate landings.
Many suggestions were unprintable, but one was "who swapped my sheep
for a Mercedes"
You can not see from the pictures but the rain is lashing down in the wind, some were still to be seen flying and suffered for their stupidity by getting absolutely soaked through.
Another
picture showing how different the weather was today, we have gone from bright
sunshine, shirt sleeve weather to cold, windy, and rainy weather in less than
twelve hours.
For a fairly short flying session we suffered a bit of carnage.
Ian was attempting a flyby and came to close to a fence which arrested his
Discus, only suffering a broken servo gear.
Graham planted the Sharp, nylon wing bolts saved the day no damage.
Richard managed to fly his zagi straight into the cliff face, recovered from
the gulley below obviously no damage.
Norman flew a fast pass with his racing Zagi straight into the rock outcrop
down in the gulley, no damage.
Colin broke his Toledo tailplane putting it in the car and then discovered
the radio bay was full of water.
Tomorrow looks good 20mph Southwest and brightening, so we are getting up
at the crack of dawn, got to cram in three days slope flying into one.