day 2
Another hot day, but with a few bijou Cu scattered modestly about.
Crew towed out to the grid, a different one from yesterday, to find that BP is now on row F rather than G, as she was yesterday. The grid is also a different shape.
The Oudie needed the airspace updating for the day. Work work busy busy work work, and it is only 9:30.
The pilot who had a tug rope strike and a fist sized hole in the canopy has had it patched and polished and is flying.
Current day with task overlay. You may have to click on the grey button with 3 bars and select club
http://clubclass.onglide.com/current-day.xml?class=club.
BP disapears up the undulating field and down the other side only to reappear still behind the tug but off the ground. Todays tow was requested at 70 knots, as yesterdays tow sank to 60kts which is all a bit marginal as the LS7 starts to wallow and sink.
Crew heroically makes pizza and BP starts at 55 and is 80km from TP2 at Burbage. She is on fairly familiar territory after TP2 as she has flown alot in the area.
BP howls round TP2 and scampers towards Tetbury, 130km down, 188km to go 3500'agl. Time for a snooze, that will guarantee an early landout.
2.5 hours and 190km done, speed is creeping up - 1hour 40mins more maybe. BP has to attempt the whole task as she will be getting closer to home after the mext TP.
Nearly at the last TP (Silverstone) then 40km to run poss. 30 mins.
Gliding is very biblical, "to those that have shall be given, to those that have not, even that which they have will be taken from them". If things are going well, you stress less, fly better and spend much less time in the cockpit.
Fall behind or get stuck in some giant hole, and life immediately gets relentlessly hard and then you have to do it all the next day.
Whilst I was typing all that sententious tosh, she seems to be on final glide. 30km and 3700' above airfield.
Scrub that, she takes a couple of hundred feet at 12km out and soon ends up 1000' overglide, stick forward and motor on.
Dunstable has no apparent circuit protocol, and no mandated comp finish procedure, all a bit hairy when 6 or seven gliders are on intersecting courses. Fortunately 2 abreast on one run and 4 abreast on the other run is ok.
Glider in covers BP in pit having a competitors sleep, she has definitely beaten five people.
Crew out
Crew towed out to the grid, a different one from yesterday, to find that BP is now on row F rather than G, as she was yesterday. The grid is also a different shape.
The Oudie needed the airspace updating for the day. Work work busy busy work work, and it is only 9:30.
The pilot who had a tug rope strike and a fist sized hole in the canopy has had it patched and polished and is flying.
Current day with task overlay. You may have to click on the grey button with 3 bars and select club
http://clubclass.onglide.com/current-day.xml?class=club.
BP disapears up the undulating field and down the other side only to reappear still behind the tug but off the ground. Todays tow was requested at 70 knots, as yesterdays tow sank to 60kts which is all a bit marginal as the LS7 starts to wallow and sink.
Crew heroically makes pizza and BP starts at 55 and is 80km from TP2 at Burbage. She is on fairly familiar territory after TP2 as she has flown alot in the area.
BP howls round TP2 and scampers towards Tetbury, 130km down, 188km to go 3500'agl. Time for a snooze, that will guarantee an early landout.
2.5 hours and 190km done, speed is creeping up - 1hour 40mins more maybe. BP has to attempt the whole task as she will be getting closer to home after the mext TP.
Nearly at the last TP (Silverstone) then 40km to run poss. 30 mins.
Gliding is very biblical, "to those that have shall be given, to those that have not, even that which they have will be taken from them". If things are going well, you stress less, fly better and spend much less time in the cockpit.
Fall behind or get stuck in some giant hole, and life immediately gets relentlessly hard and then you have to do it all the next day.
Whilst I was typing all that sententious tosh, she seems to be on final glide. 30km and 3700' above airfield.
Scrub that, she takes a couple of hundred feet at 12km out and soon ends up 1000' overglide, stick forward and motor on.
Dunstable has no apparent circuit protocol, and no mandated comp finish procedure, all a bit hairy when 6 or seven gliders are on intersecting courses. Fortunately 2 abreast on one run and 4 abreast on the other run is ok.
Glider in covers BP in pit having a competitors sleep, she has definitely beaten five people.
Crew out
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