Mystic 27/10/2007

I'm sitting here on Melbourne Cup Weekend where the crew from Airborne is up in Bright for the demo show, we haven't had the favorable conditions so no one is flying today or even the next couple of days. So I am posting about my last flight from Mystic in Bright.




The sky looked filled up with cu's and by the time I finished setting up my glider clouds seemed to be closing together, so I jumped into the harness and took off at about 12:30pm. 10 minutes later I was at bomb out, what a bugger.

Flying above Mystic's launch, my car is the red one. Beside there's also a group of mountain motor cyclist who popped around to have a look

An overdevelopment looked definite with a thunder head right above me as I was packing my glider at the landing paddock, I though tomyself I haven't had my fix for the day. So by the time I tied my glider onto my car, I thought I'll go into town grab a drink and a pie and see how it looks. So after that the storm looked to be drifting to the south east away from Bright and I thought I'll go up the hill again I might get another flight.

Maximum height for the day

Paragliding tandem operators were there too, sothat was a good sign, its working! It looked though the same senario with the sky fliied up with closing in cu's, so it was a hit and miss for me. I launched at about 4:00pm, it took me a bit of work to get right lift, but once I was up high enough I was working to stay away from the clouds, with extra smooth thermic conditions I enjoyed boating around for at least an hour before another OD was due, then I thought lets go to land.

Cruising above Bright

So writing about flying is not a bad thing indeed when the day is not good for flying, and when you don't want to just sit and think about flying.