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Title: | Lanzarote, day 5. Mala and then Famara | ||||||||||||
Site: | Lanzarote | ||||||||||||
Pilot: | Luke Nichol | ||||||||||||
Date of flight: | 4th February 2014 | ||||||||||||
Wing type: | Hang glider | ||||||||||||
Flight details: | Another great day. We started off at Mala which is an inland thermic site which had some screaming thermals, it also had a seabreeze set up that you could climb above the clouds as there were two cloud bases. I had about an hour of super heated thermals, occasionally getting properly chucked about on the U2 before landing on the beach right next to a resturaunt for a fish soup lunch. Everyone else turned up in the cars and by the time we had finished eating the wind had gone a steady NNW and so we headed to Famara high launch. We all flew from there with the goal of landing in Famara town next to the bar/restaurant. It wasn't very lifty but some were just able to maintain. I launched first and worked the lift above launch, a few got unlucky and went down to the bottom landing, but then Jody made a heroic glide towards the town and landed half way, Chris then landed 3/4 of the way and now it was just JB and me up. John worked the face of the cliffs quite away along before getting a small climb and then going on a monster glide to Famara, landing with 100ft to spare... I'd eventually had enough of the main face which was now swamped with pg's and went on a ridge run glide towards the coast before heading cross wind to The town with full VG and my toes pointed... I flew over Chris and was half way to John when I saw that if I did make it I would arrive very low and there were power lines to avoid. So turned back and landed next to Chris about 1km away from goal, derigged our gliders and then wandered into town to meet John and have a beer whilst waiting for our retrieves. Very lucky to fly Famara two days in a row and also get some booming thermals from Mala in the same day. Tomorrow looks like Macha, so not only have we flown every day here but we will have flown every site in one week!!! |
Cross-country league entry | |||||||||||||||
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Flight type: | Open Distance XC | ||||||||||||||
Takeoff: | 29.110617,-13.477417 | ||||||||||||||
Finish at: | 29.126183,-13.465133 | ||||||||||||||
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Witness: | GPS file | ||||||||||||||
Distance | 2.10 km | ||||||||||||||
Score | 2.10 km |
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