Flight

Flight details
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
Flight type:Open Distance XC
Takeoff:29.110617,-13.477417
Finish at:29.126183,-13.465133
Landing place:
Witness:GPS file
Distance2.10 km
Score2.10 km
Comments
Ex Member 31885th Feb 04:16: Hi Luke, whilst enjoying your flying at Macher I'd resist the temptation to fly over the back and land within the bounds of the Timanfaya national park. Apparently It's a 10,000 Euro fine for doing so and the terrain is nasty in all but a few very small places. Apologies if you're already aware of this.
Dave Massie4th Feb 06:14: Luke: so not only have we flown every day here but we will have flown every site in one week!!! Not if you haven't flown the quarry near Playa Blanca, you haven't :0) ...and you haven't really flown Lanzarote until the police have chased you for infringing airspace. See attached.
Miles Hockliffe4th Feb 07:09: But how about a little XC to that island thing in the foreground (attached) thats not in airspace .... its been SSW here all morning .......... sadly SSW at 61 - 91 ave 76 according to Wendy ; ))))
David Williams4th Feb 07:26: I saw a leaflet by the local paragliding tandem pilot offering flights to "that island thing" (if you mean La Graciosa)! There is a regular ferry service to get back. ;)
David Williams4th Feb 07:37: And then (more seriously) there's the fine and dramatic little site of Tenezar - though I'm not sure about the options for landing a hang-glider there. I enjoyed flying there a couple of weeks ago. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vWKst7UolfI (at the end). Actually, I'm just jealous because you, Luke, are a flying a more capable machine to get the most out of the flying opportunities in Lanzarote b in Lanzarote, while I'm here with gale force wind, torrential rain and a leaky chimney stack. Ho, hum
Nicos Halvatzis5th Feb 12:08: It sounds like you are having great holiday,you don't really want to get back to the UK . How is Chris getting on with the Discus ?
Ex Member 33585th Feb 12:44: interesting map , where do I get that with that info highlighted !!
Chris Townsend5th Feb 01:14: The Discus took me to cloudbase in my best thermal ever at Mala yesterday. It's a great wing thanks Nicos. Do you really want it back?
Miles Hockliffe6th Feb 05:20: I've attached it here and one for the UK also.... great for visualising Airspace. Also attached a (slightly illegal) one of OS maps bollox this site doesn't like KMZ's as attachments, so here's a link to them on Dropbox https://www.dropbox.com/sh/wch8wznfykrxtof/bGQkOBFQKi
Chris Townsend6th Feb 07:18: I should like to point out that Captain Cautious Chris had arrived at a safe landing field with plenty of height to have continued on to a far less safe one closer to goal (even though he didn't really know at the time exactly where goal was) :o)
Ex Member 33588th Feb 01:24: wow, thanks
David Williams9th Feb 04:13: very impressive.