Practice Day 3

Our Glorious Leader and the Architect of the entire entreprise: Ben

No surprise really that the day started hot and blue with a cloudless sky. It took quite a while to cook up and the 1300hr launch was delayed until a couple of cumulus appeared over the release area.


The benefits of a big Arcus wing: more shade to sit in

 Once again it was not straightforward to get away: the first climb on Termenillo was tricky to find and needed patience to grind round in less than a knot until it built. Once up though we started as a pack of four shortly followed by Leigh and Perley. A run down the ridges and the long glide across the plain took us to the yellow ridge where there was 6kts to the cloudbase of 10,500'. Around the turn at Shittifarti we dropped the turn at Gay Orchard (Campo Grovo in the local parlance) and instead ran back to the yellow ridge and North where it again started to go more blue. A good 7kt climb back up to 10,000' at Castellucio put us on glide round the last turn and home through the fluffy valley for another 350kms day out.

The evening was filled with dinner and a show: barbequed meats and the spectacle of Coutts and the Belgian Chav trying to put their tents up in the dark. Quality Entertainment.

Excitement reaches fever pitch in the stalls seating area