captainobvious
6 лет назадThis is my first post on Golos! | Glad to be apart of something so early | I have been on steemit since May 2017
Its is not a good idea for the new guy to jump out first because chances are he is going to miss the lift and sink out.
As I always say, no risk-it, no biscuit.
A few pilots were parking the cars when I got here.
Tony brought his mountain bike because he knew how bad of a day it was going to be.
He did however, also bring his Delta 2 paraglider with him just in case.
After a short hike, we were in business.
I don't personally recommend new guys launching out first. Its just a bad idea.
My heart sank with my glider when I launched because there was not much lift...
Scratching by definition is getting close to the hill to find lift, or searching the air desperately for some up-going air.
I somehow managed to get back up to launch to tell the guys its not a good idea to launch...
Once again I was struggling to stay above launch
I believe that it was right here where Tim went to the bail out.
It should have been game over for me, but I wasn't going to give up just yet.
I some how managed a low save again.
Here we go again.
There is hope, a few other guys decided to launch.
It was right about here where I realized that it was going to be ok.
I was able to find a good thermal and get above launch a couple hundred feet.
This is the view from about 400 feet above the launch.
A few of the other guys were scratching around at this point.
Its nice when you are not the low man.
Lets come in an top land.
Everyone was in the air. 2 hangliders, and a handful of baggers.
Now its time to practice touch and goes.
Fly around, set up behind launch and then bring it in.
I was able to do about 3 or 4 top landings.
After talking to a couple of the guys on launch, they were sharing that they are not fond of top landing because in canada you don't get to do it very often.
