Newcastle South Leagues Club, Merewether.
A short flight
Sun, 22/08/2010 - 22:20 — Dawson
Seabreeze.com.au was suggesting the possibility of a light seabreeze, so I loaded up before I headed in to town with Flo & the kids. We took two cars, just in case it did come on, so she could go home, and I could stay around.
I found Gary up in his Fun and a paraglider both floating around enjoying the light lift, so quickly set up with Stuie graciously stuffing battens for me.
I've been working on a new nose boom mount for my Go-Pro camera, so chucked it on, and put it on video so I could see if my plans worked out.
Whilst setting up, I was chatting with a bunch of kids who were asking all the usual questions. When they asked how long I stay up for, I told them it depends on lots of things. It can be as little as three minutes or as long as 5 hours. I think that Huey decided to punish me for bragging. He knows I've never flown for 5 hours, and I rekon he figured I'd better learn exactly how long it takes to bombout from Strezi, so that's just what I did. About a minute it seems.
dpb
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Good effect with that new
Good effect with that new wibble wobble mount sort of gives the feel of a bit of rock and roll - great effect. Nice pull up before the rocky and wet bit too.
A man with imagination has wings: he can fly.
Top demonstration
Top demonstration of the text book approach into Susan Gilmore. My brain tries to mess with me when doing the 360 approach over water, (and its hard to extend your glide cos of the cliff). And good on yer for launching in the light stuff!
360 degrees in a circle
With 360 degrees in a full circle, Dawson made a 180 degree turn onto final. Actualy only managing 270 degrees throughout all of the flight.
Nice arrival Dawson.
Style.
See you wednesday for the meeting.
±300 Degrees Actually
In my opinion Scotty he took off facing more to the East. Thus making his first turn about 120º. and the total resulting 300º. Bloody marvoullous effort I say :-)
Exact degrees
If Dawson made a track log of this well executed flight we could put a protractor on it and work out the exact degrees of the turn.
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