After some great days with northely winds, the trough moved trough and the wind changed to S-SE.
Ron towed me up a bit after 12 o’clock and I started off in to a scratchy thermal which wasn’t really working.

So I started flying back to the tow paddock to have another go, about half way there all of a sudden there was lots of grass from the paddock getting lifted in to the air and soon after I was in a booming 5m/s climb. I topped out at about 2000m and started flying towards Hay, when I looked down at my gps I thought it was broken, it was saying that I was doing only 45Km/h! I had hoped for 60-70km/h. Since there was not much wind I used the bar a bit more, and due to good climbs I still managed an ok average speed.

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After doing a road trip to Western Australia with Karin and a couple of short flights I started the long drive back to the east coast of Australia. After 4 days and 3300km of driving I arrived in one piece and with limited mental sanity in Deniliquin, New South Wales. I even found Ron’s Greenacres farm right away!

After a round of Duck “hunting” (more scaring them away from the rice crop by shooting in the air) it was time to go to bed because the forecast for the next day looked promising.

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Der Thermik verschwindet langsam und damit die ganz spannenden Flüge leider auch. Ein perfekter Zeitpunkt um sich hinter das “Schneideprogramm” zu setzen und die besten Flüge nochmals zu durchleben. Das Ergebniss will euch natürlich nicht vorenthalten. Ein Mix aus meinen letzten 4 Flügen, bei denen ich gefilmt habe:

Cross Country, Erlebnisse sommer, Streckenfliegen, Wallis, wettkampf