Free Flying on The South Downs
Flight
| Flight details | |||||||||||||
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| Title: | Dyke to Caburn the hard way | ||||||||||||
| Site: | Devils Dyke | ||||||||||||
| Pilot: | Dave Massie | ||||||||||||
| Date of flight: | 19th May 2011 | ||||||||||||
| Wing type: | Paraglider | ||||||||||||
| Flight details: | DamN that was hard work. It took 30 minutes to cross the A23 - drifts back south, then pushing north on the bar , climb9ng from lowish down, back to airspace. After scraping the top of a few houses in Lewes, I got dumped on Lewes golf course, then walked to Caburn, where I took off and gained a 1000 feet in windy sea breeze. Decided that the clouds looked bad, and the direction was toward the 2500ALT airspace, so abandoned hopes of a second XC. |
| Cross-country league entry | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Flight type: | Flight with 3 turnpoints | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Takeoff: | 50.881367,-0.21205 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| To: | 50.870567,-0.1892 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| To: | 50.879183,-0.176933 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| To: | 50.878267,0.018833 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Finish at: | 50.871667,0.027333 | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Landing place: | Golf Club, Lewes | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Witness: | GPS | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Distance | 18.02 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Score | 18.02 km | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| GPS evidence from: | XC.009691.igc |
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