Alpine accidents
There's been some discussion on some rather shocking looking stats concerning alpine acidents in 2003. Putting aside the conspiracy theory that it's just a way of getting students for various magazine...
View ArticleGoogled
Teehee. So by a subtle change and the right posting I moved up to number 7 on the Google search "rss flight hang gliding".
View ArticleClik here to view.
Article 9
Today I sat another beautiful day out. The North South pressure difference was forecast to drop, but at 1.30 was still rising, and by 4.30 had hit 10hPa (5 is normally the good upper limit)....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Article 8
Forgot to add a little flight at Easter: good height, basically a 3 thermal flight though, over to Sacre Monte becuase there was a snow storm towards Sette Termine and Lema, then over home, back to...
View ArticleWind forecasts for whole of Europe
Whilst updating my links I found a great source for wind models for whole of Europe and Switzerland. Up to a 48 hour forecast, too. :http://www.unibas.ch/geo/mcr/3d/meteo/nmm22/nmm22.htm , choose...
View ArticleNew A frame
Put on the standard A-frame today, finally arrived and went down to Parma to collect it from Franco. Looks nice, actually quite clean. Uprights much safer. I have also a new FAST speedbar, since the...
View ArticleShit weather
Weather has been crap all weekend again. Today NW with quite a lot of OD, big clouds. Looked great out in the plains. Tomorrow, Monday, looks like being great. As usual.
View ArticleOut and about
Finally a spot of reasonable weather and some flights. Both about the same track, off to Pian, San Martino and Sangiano. Topped out at 1800m both times. Nice flights, about 30km XC but still haven't...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Article 3
Decent enough flight in bumpy conditions last Sunday. 2h20 with lots of sink between thermals, climbs usual 2 to 4 m/s up, but several pilots went down crossing valleys. I had a big climb out (850m)...
View Articletuning my litesport, bis
Checked out a few things last weekend. Elastic had gone on stinger, bit of a fiddle to replace but easy in the end. Checked the battens, all OK which shows that the original shape (bent) was very...
View ArticleYes, the foehn is no fun?
In the Oz Report last week Hansjoerg Truttman gave a highly accurate warning of tumblings and crashes that actually went on to happen less than 48hrs later. But even despite that, some pilots maybe...
View ArticleMore airtime
Yesterday I got fed up with working and seeing such great weather outside. Out with Dave and we had almost the whole range to ourselves. A bit tricky to get up at first - quite cyclic - then rough as...
View Article
