Battle bonfire boyes

Very smokey evening at battle last night

One casualty

Our pergola bites the dust...

He shoots and

Fails to leave the hill.  Nice day with some pleasant thermals to cloudbase <3000' but no clouds to head for. Better luck next time.

Flying is so much more fun when you're clear of the PG soup.

Saturday 5th October

Hmm Westbury tomorrow...will it be good enough to  score greater than 40k for the XC league to get back to 3rd place.  Suspect 130k is out of the question, although that is 'just' a 45k pre-declared triangle, so thats the goal then.  Time to play in SeeYou.

Triangle set all I need is the right weather

Royal Victoria Park

Walk along the beach and woods.

Wendy and Totem pole on Hamble Common

Westbury wednesday?

So current forecast for Wednesday is NW'ly so looks like I have a chance of a flight at Westbury. Here's hoping.

Too ambitous

So Nev has set a 38 mile triangle and i've gone for my ambitious 80k flight again.  And again I fail to get to the first turn point.  After nearly decking it I give up and rush over to the west just north of Frome and then back to Westbury with loads to spare. 

Working it at Westbury

Still at the White Horse

Why's it always so blue short of my first turnpoint? Scrabbling out of a hole past Melksham

A much better view of Westbury

On the way at last...

I'm going to have to learn to not set an over ambitious into wind leg. With the correct plan an 80k+ triangle was easily doable on Saturday.  So have now defined one with a minimal into wind leg at 68k using westbury as a remote start to optimise the cross wind elements... Now all I need is another good westbury day.