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| Looking a bit on the blowy side ;) |
After yesterday's epic flights, long retrieve, and little sleep, we were back up and out at the tow road just after 10am. The forecast was showing more north wind and possibly blown out but we decided to try anyways, because if you don't at least go out, you don't get to fly!
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| Andrew volunteers to test out the winds aloft. |
Out at the tow road it was blowing pretty much straight north and with a fair bit of grunt...20+kph on the ground. The Q's hadn't started popping yet but Andrew and Peter went for a couple of test tows to see how thermic it was, and the tows were pretty rough with lots of turbulence.
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| Steven getting ready as the Q's start to pop on the horizon. |
Finally around 11am the Q's started popping overhead (right on schedule!) and the cloud shadows were whizzing by on the ground at 40+ kph. As well the ground wind had picked up and was gusting to 30 kph with dust devils popping off around us. Frankly it wasn't looking that great for safe and enjoyable flying, although I'm sure if you could get off the ground and stay in the air for the next 8 hours you'd be OK as the wind would have died off by dusk.
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| Peter thinking should he go or not? |
In the end we decided to cancel the day and save our energy for tomorrow when the winds looks much lighter. Despite not getting to fly yesterday and wanting to get a new personal best, I'd rather not get scared or maimed trying to do it on a marginal day ;)
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| In the end we decided to pack it up as the wind-driven Q's pop overhead |
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