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Hugh Miller  All flights
National League 2014
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Turnpoint Flight on a Paraglider
Club
Southern
Glider
Ozone Mantra M6
Date
11th April 2014
Start
11:20
Finish
18:01
Duration
6hrs 41mins
Takeoff
Bradwell Edge
Landing
Nr Balsham
Coords
Takeoff
53.32125, -1.72998
Start
53.33008, -1.73628
TP1
53.31375, -1.72202
TP2
53.32293, -1.75520
TP3
53.21110, -1.35958
Finish
52.13793, 0.32655
Landing
52.13793, 0.32655
Distances and Score
Leg 1
2.05k
Leg 2
2.44k
Leg 3
29.18k
Leg 4
165.13k
Total
198.80k
Score
198.8
Open Distance
Total
192.8k
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Yes
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Height   -   GPS data
Maximum Height
[14:43:11]
5384 ft
Lowest Save
[13:55:51]
377 ft
Takeoff Height
[11:14:29]
1198 ft
Landing Height
[18:01:52]
328 ft
Total Ascent 48980 ft
Height Gain
Above Takeoff 4186 ft
Maximum 5007 ft
Low Point
as Lowest Save
377 ft
High Point
as Maximum Height
5384 ft
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Climb   -   Pressure data
Maximum Climb
[11:23:49]
4.6 m/s
Minimum Climb
[13:15:15]
-4.8 m/s
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Speed
Maximum Speed
[15:27:35]
69.1 km/h
Average Speed
around course
29.7 km/h
Average Speed
over track length
39.0 km/h
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Tracklog
Flight Duration 6hrs 47mins
Track Points 4854
Recording Interval 5 secs
Statistics Interval 5 secs
Track Length 264.8 km
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Flight instrument   -   reported as
Flymaster F1, V1.22, S/N 141
Notes

Climb and Speed averaged over 5 second intervals.

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Average Speed around course is measured from Start to Finish points.

Track Length is the cumulative distance between track points from Takeoff to Landing.

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Rasp led us up the garden path on Thursday so 5 of us ended up staying in Birmingham before ditching the plan to go to Llangollen and heading for Bradwell instead. I nearly took out Nige Prior on launch getting picked up and dragged over his lines and dumped twice before getting off ("fuckin southern showboatin", he drawled) then we were off: Zingy epicness over the peaks, a bit slower beyond.

I was flying with Mark Watts and it was exactly as Rasp predicted really, 4500 ft - 5000 ft base and 3-4 up climbs. Mark landed after we both made a stupid mistake and did a silly long glide about 70-80 k out, and I was lucky to just squeek away in a zero. The yellow rape fields were definitely working well today when low.

We'd declared a goal at Peterborough to give us something to aim for as Rasp was predicting spreadout and general poor conditions south of there. Andy Walls landed at goal, and although the clouds were all bigger and more inert looking further on, actually there was a nice street so I decided to push on in what turned out to be the best section of the day before taking a couple of mincey slow climbs at the end to get past Cambridge.

Today just proved to me how you really have to keep it lastminute. Com as the forecasts changed massively just the evening before. Thanks Ellis, Mark, Rog and Kenny for a great trip and thanks Guy for all the weather updates. Oh and Jimmy Piper beat us on the tour-of-Britain award: Norfolk-Dunstable-Westbury-Llangollen-Bradwell in under 3 days!

What else - oh yes - on the way back Kenny explained to me what 'cold air advection' is - apparently its the warmer air above the clouds sucking up the air into the clouds, so you get longer liftier lines right under base when that's happening, which it seemed to be doing later today. Lasham had been forecasting that to be happening, and so it was interesting to be told what that was about.

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