Hello all you hard working people,
Friday was a quiet day with Steve Hedley having a flight in the
Nimbus and Jenny and Garry doing some winch practice.
Garry managed to get to 6500, while Steve found the day a challenge ,
the day did not start till after 1pm.
Saturday started early with Jenny and others getting the winch ready
from 8am, winching started at 9-45 and no cable breaks.
The forecast for the day on the blip maps was looking OK and cumulus
started to generate earlier than Friday.
Christian took the last winch launch and got away easily, I self
launched just after and got away easily to start heading for BARRABA.
With the pressure on so as not to be a liar, I left Keepit at 4800 ft and
headed for Barraba. There was good strong lift, 4kts, the cloud base
at the hills was rising and lift was getting stronger average 5kts.
Made Barraba easily with good streeting ahead so decided to head for
Bingara. No stopping, kept going, turned 29km short of Warialda
122km from home at 7000ft with good streeting back to the Kelvins.
From here the day was dying and it was getting hard to find lift but
struggled past Carrol to 20km south. Turned to scratch back to Keepit,
thought I needed another 30km for my 300 so headed for Manilla, got
abut 11 km ran out of height and lift so turned to run home. Bummer!
Sink, no glide, down with the undercarriage - oops a little lift - keep
going - still air - arrive to join base at 600ft.
All in all a good day so that's the first of the 300km days I
suggested would happen this weekend, sorry you missed it.
Robin
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