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Cheers Gordie and apologies to everyone who Ive jumped down their throats when more than one person says the same thing it starts to sound like a put down its just sometimes things ppl say do seem pretty obvious to me allready so it kind of made me feel like they thought i was stupid. Yes I learnt a...

cheers mike sound advice

"I know why" !!!! this is quite a bold statement. YOU DON'T WHY.... you no nothing. Your sounding quite cock sure Colin, you are on a very very gradual learning curve and you need to realise you know less than nothing, when you think you do know "why" after 100 hours, you still ...

While we are on the topic of water landings a point picked up while doing the SIV. If you are unlucky enough to land in the drink land down wind so the canopy overflies you and might save the nightmare of it coming down on top of you. My understanding of a water landing is unclip totally and like y...

Just to illustrate how scary, a bit of maths..... Surface area of a paraglider is about 30 square metres. If you assume an average thickness across the whole wing of say 50cm, then that give a volume of 15 cubic metres. 15 cubic metres of water weighs 15 tonnes, so worst case scenario is you are in...

Cheers wendy I agree I certainly should have had more height at chourdon point I just got caught up in evrything. Flying with others though is certainly a difficult thing to acheive when you work 6 days a week and cant get to the site till 7pm so it usually means im on my tod but someone always know...

Bet you wished you'd never bother posting the flight now Colin. I'm sure all the comments are in your best interest. Flying a duvet is a risk at the best of times add rotor and turbulence................ Yeah I do kind of regret it. I was hopping for advice and pointers rather than ppl die and all ...

Don't really know these sites so excuse for my ignorance. Sounds as if you are trying to fly XC up and down the coast Colin, be carefull. I have witnessed many low airtime pilots over the years get it wrong trying to do what they consider to be easy ridge runs at coastal sites. The classic way is t...

I managed to self launch so I didnt think the wind strength was too bad and most of it was prety easy like I say I was too eager to jump into dawdon not realising it was so far out of the wind I should have stayed at hawthorn and worked up my height or maybe even landed at hawthorn.

Well I have just had my best flight so far and found out my GPS although ON was not recording DOH!!! So just for the record I flew Horden takeoff with the wind well of to the south then down to foxholes peaking at 360ftamsl back to horden back to foxholes back to horden back to foxholes (then though...

the com port all depends on the computer mine is COM3 i think bills was COM2

Have you installed the software that comes with the lead so that the pc recognises the USB lead as a serial lead

I thought it was bad enough when the hand rail dissapeared but when the floor did that would be enough for me and the first guy that he passes he does it that easy you wouldnt imagine hes on a tiny path on the face of a cliff

I see you lads have made it into skywings again picture from Model ridge. This time on the contents page.

Mad Dog front and centre looks like steve truick out in front to the right

A big congrats to allthose depicted.

Great peice of video there

http://www.nhpc.org.uk/nhpc/modules.php?name=leonardo&op=show_flight&flightID=2863 All it takes is for you to be parked into wind and not moving for a few seconds and the system will cut your flight there, it thinks you have landed. You will notice it has discounted about 3mins at the start...

PS Colin I was not refering to anyone individual, I think everyone has just dumped the contents of the GPS into the system at some point, me inc. I think with the posibility of running out of space, I just want to suggest people use common sence. There are currently 315 flights under 3 mins long on...

Was watching a slide show of pictures from Horden 20-04-2008 and it looked pretty good so ive stuck it on youtube as a movie.

Apologies for not editing this photos as there were far too many.

Enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LNKk0Ve9b0M

Horden 30-04-2008

4.8km OLC distance

Point taken but is there a reason why it recorded my 30min flight as 13min and it put my takeoff at blackhall allthough it scored from Horden some parts of the flight analysis doesnt ring true with each other

Ive nearly finished my CP and my NHPC application is in the post to Claire so can I join in.

John Wallis wrote:Upright my *rse

Is this an ananagram do you realy mean right Up my *rse

Sundays photos by me are now on the board

Hangliders are more photogenic than paragliders

I think everyone got up today and for a change that even included me with a short 8min flight resulting in a bottom landing and then when there were fewer there a nice 35min flight doing tasks for Ronny with a nice top landing.

All the photos are up on the board now.

Edit

Yet another good turn out at horden today with more hangies than you would know what to do with.

Photos on the board later.

If anyone would like higher resolution copies of my photos then just let me know which ones and your email address and I'll send them.

im afraid not gary the discus was andy buchan

my battery ran out early wednesday which is why their are so few pics from that day

In regards to alistairs flight I have looked at it with GPS dump and this is what I have come up with. If it was a free flight the 3 turn OLC as we know it would be 20.94km but he qualified for a free triangle which positions his 3 turn points to qualify but this is only 18.06km now although the tri...