Hi all
So yesterday most of the boys were out flying on Mickey's slope at the Bwlch. The wind was south westerly and around 30 mph, so the lift was pretty damned good, as is normal for Mickey's.
On arrival there was a group of lads from Bristol already there and flying. Their glass ships were flying fine, but they were having trouble launching their foamies, as was our Clive who had a bit of a mishap whilst launching his correx Mig. In fact, watching him trying to launch was quite comical, as you'll see in the video. Sorry Clive.
Hi Steve, thanks for taking the time out from flying to put together this video - and yes, that MiG is awkward to launch unless you have giant gorilla hands a la Monsieur May! I had no idea where the MiG was after I let it go as I was staring directly into the sun. It was only when a pantomime chorus of "Behind you!!" was shouted did I have any clue.. I ALMOST saved it! lol!
ReplyDeleteA great day with some fine company.
Looks like you had as much as we did yesterday. Not sure where the Bristol guys were from as only one of my club mates slopes and he and the rest of my Facebook rc group were with me. Any ideas?
ReplyDeleteI think they said they usually slope at Weston, on the headland there I guess. I think one or two of them were struggling with launching their foamies on such a big slope. Too much elevator input and not pushing out from the launch.
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