alan_k Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 Managed to drag my sorry a** out of bed early as I knew conditions would be good. Just a few interesting snippets from the flight. It was a nil wind take-off, so concentration and keeping pressure on the A's until the wing was overhead. A longer run to get airborne, to be expected, but as the field is covered with seeding dandelions (one o'clocks to those of a certain age), once seated I noticed the lower half of my shins were covered with seeds, so I helped to spread them round a bit. The air was smooth as silk, very nice to fly in. I have seen some wildlife from overhead but the best was this morning, a fox chasing a rabbit across a field. The rabbit got away. The landing was also nil wind so quite fast, did a long skid on my heels before coming to a halt. T/O at 6:50 and 1 hr 37 m in the air, brilliant, but surprisingly cold. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guy Posted May 19, 2018 Share Posted May 19, 2018 Mt trike was covered with seeds when I landed this morning too...........best flight in ages and well worth getting up (not as early as you though). I tried my Gerbing heated jacket for the first time........really toasty warm as it was a bit chilly. My only problem was coming down............a couple of thermal close to my strip lifted me back up and even with engine off I wasn't altogether sure I would get down before the end of the field, but all ok in the end 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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