looking very windy but sunday may not be to bad for lowca

[gary stenhouse]

i have seen people flying lowca on hangiders and they say it is pretty user freindly. has any of you hangies been there to fly it i know you can land no problem to the south but a bit trick to top land i would of thought. looks like sunday could be light enough and if so then any experience is good experience at this stage of the game. i have flown it o a pg when it has been off to th sw and its a bit small but on a west i can imagine it works very well

cheers gary

[Pete Batey]

i have seen people flying lowca on hangiders and they say it is pretty user freindly. has any of you hangies been there to fly it i know you can land no problem to the south but a bit trick to top land i would of thought. looks like sunday could be light enough and if so then any experience is good experience at this stage of the game. i have flown it o a pg when it has been off to th sw and its a bit small but on a west i can imagine it works very well

cheers gary

It's not the perfect place for hang gliding but we use it alot. I have a favourite hidden little rigging area immediately above the best point to launch. Depending on conditions, the official top landing area is ok but I tend to head for an adjacent field which is an upslope into wind. If you're coming through on a wed or a sunday I'll hook up with you. Any other day I may be able to hook you up with someone else. Give me a call.
Pete
Keswick
017687 71456

[gary stenhouse]

cheers peter do you know if anyone manage to fly there today? as the wind did look ok on the coast. i was talking to bob calvert who was wave flying on his microlight and he was saying it was pretty wild up there today.

cheers gary

[Pete Batey]

cheers peter do you know if anyone manage to fly there today? as the wind did look ok on the coast. i was talking to bob calvert who was wave flying on his microlight and he was saying it was pretty wild up there today.

cheers gary

I've not heard anything. Looked fairly breezy in keswick from my bed where I was trying to avoid decorating.
I've been trying to get Bob to try a rigid but he has this hang-up about using power !
Pete

[Pete Batey]

cheers peter do you know if anyone manage to fly there today? as the wind did look ok on the coast. i was talking to bob calvert who was wave flying on his microlight and he was saying it was pretty wild up there today.

cheers gary

I've not heard anything. Looked fairly breezy in keswick from my bed where I was trying to avoid decorating.
I've been trying to get Bob to try a rigid but he has this hang-up about using power !
Pete

From Bob:
Only 3 days flyable from last 8. All with soarable wave though.

I thought 800'/min lift to 8k impressive last weekend but yesterday 1200'/min at times to 7k with wave jumping and out and return XC easy.

Only a matter of time before someone gets into the really big Eden Valley wave !

[gordie]

Can we have a whip round to buy Bob a GPS and digital camera, or even better set up 'Bob's Blog' somewhere. We need to document his efforts as yet again he cracks open a different way of flying.

He's like the bloody 'Scarlet Pimpernnel' of the sky's (we seek him here we seek him there....) and most of the time when we have all given up on the day, he's up there happily floating about above the clouds on something worth less then Gary's flipping hub caps!

Best of all though he has a great amount of enthusiasm and is keen to share his knowledge. So next time you bump into him, shake his hand and beg a lift in his back seat.

This was the view he gave me:

[Pete Batey]

More from Bob:
"Really big wave yesterday.

Very steep, lots of rotor, small wave slots but sustained 1300'/min lift without really trying ! I suspect if I had flown at dusk, lift would of been even stronger and wave more sorted.

Just a little too exciting though."

Gulp, Pete