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National League 2011
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Turnpoint Flight on a Paraglider
Club
Long Mynd
Glider
Nova Factor
Date
13th July 2011
Start
14:56
Finish
18:27
Duration
3hrs 31mins
Takeoff
Llangollen
Landing
Llanidloes
Coords
Takeoff
1
Start
521
TP1
680
TP2
2938
TP3
3522
Finish
3689
Landing
3747
Distances and Score
Leg 1
2.76k
Leg 2
51.05k
Leg 3
11.21k
Leg 4
7.46k
Total
72.48k
Score
72.5
Open Distance
Total
65.2k
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Height   -   GPS data
Maximum Height
[16:12:51]		 5390 ft
Lowest Save
[14:56:35]		 1319 ft
Takeoff Height
[14:21:23]		 1296 ft
Landing Height
[18:31:07]		 591 ft
Total Ascent 21532 ft
Height Gain
Above Takeoff 4094 ft
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Maximum Climb
[15:08:39]		 3.5 m/s
Minimum Climb
[17:46:47]		 -3.0 m/s
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Maximum Speed
[14:44:07]		 60.3 km/h
Average Speed
around course		 20.6 km/h
Average Speed
over track length		 34.6 km/h
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Tracklog
Flight Duration 4hrs 9mins
Track Points 3747
Recording Interval 4 secs
Statistics Interval 4 secs
Track Length 143.9 km
Invalid Heights
[< 1%]		 2
Invalid Heights
[< 1%]		 6
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Flight instrument   -   reported as
XC Trainer V3.3-09, S/N 7466
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Climb and Speed averaged over 4 second intervals.

These values may be lower than those shown by a flight instrument, which has access to continuous raw data.

Red values indicate suspect data, because the tracklog contains invalid points.

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Story 1
Takeoff14:21:23
Height:1295 ftPosition:52.956250, -3.136420
Wind was really well off to the east, but despite that, using the bits of thermal was quite soarable, although pretty unpleasant.

Eventually decided to go across the tree lined bowl by the transmitter, as thats where the other much earlier wings got away, from the easterly facing slope at the far end. On the way had the biggest monster symetrical collapse I've ever felt - and I saw this one as I was looking up at the time - the whole wing apart from the end couple of feet completely rotated so I could see the top surface. Didn't horseshoe, and with a little bit of instant help it came out with a huge bang. I was far too close in to the trees, and probably in rotor from behind the take off spur, silly me. Anyway went over to join Richard Worley who had picked up something and we started climbing out quickly, closely followed by Martin Knight who raced over to join the thermal.
Story 2
Track point15:39:55
Height:1814 ftDuration:1:18 hrs
Speed:53.1 km/hDistance:15.4 km
Climb:-1.5 m/secPosition:52.829860, -3.229800
A long glide into sunshine revealed nothing, and with Martin following on behind about half a mile away it looked like we both going to be down soon. I spied a short sharp spine back ridge from a couple of miles out, and it was in sun, so realised it looked like the only option, either the windward or lee side was my only chance. Almost immediately into zeroes that quickly turned into a super climb to base. Martin barred it over, and from where I was he looked really low, but managed to climb out too. Phew.
Story 3
Track point16:25:35
Height:2211 ftDuration:2:04 hrs
Speed:45.9 km/hDistance:28.6 km
Climb:-2.3 m/secPosition:52.710710, -3.260950
It felt like I was low, and found a nice sheltered valley that the lee side slope kicked off a weak thermal from behind a steep hill on the north of the valley. Good job as I didn't see any cars travelling and didn't want to land down there anyway.
Story 4
Track point17:00:19
Height:4593 ftDuration:2:38 hrs
Speed:39.6 km/hDistance:36.7 km
Climb:-2.0 m/secPosition:52.638660, -3.285170
My declared goal was Builth Wells, but with the un-forecast NNE - NE wind I was having to crosswind between each climb. I wanted to keep inland as I could already see the coast direction was starting to blue out a little and didn't want to catch the sea breeze by accident.
Story 5
Track point17:46:39
Height:2372 ftDuration:3:25 hrs
Speed:45.9 km/hDistance:54.5 km
Climb:-2.8 m/secPosition:52.485450, -3.361250
Things started to get a little indecisive for me at this point - shall I head back to Newtown to get a lift or catch the train, or carry on and probably land on top of the LLandinam hills amongst the wind turbines. I decided that a long walk would do me good, and fortunately found something very weak which gradually got me well over the top. It was getting late so I then decided that I needed to land to speak to my lad before he got ready for bed. I set off downwind for Llanidloes.
Story 6
Track point18:26:27
Height:1430 ftDuration:4:05 hrs
Speed:42.3 km/hDistance:64.6 km
Climb:0.3 m/secPosition:52.434280, -3.553340
Shall I work the gentle lift I'm in along with several birds. It will take me into the boonies, nah lets make my phone call and go buy some chips.
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Status:Published
Stories:6
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