2011-01-30 Ubley

First flight at this historic and excellent site near Bristol. A site of natural beauty to which public access is being apparently eroded by a 'charity' supposedly inplace to encourage and facilitate public access. Please go to www.flyubley.co.uk for more details. If we do not keep public rights of access to the countryside now future generations will miss out!

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• Reech
• paragliding
• Ubley
• NOva
• Tycoon
• takeoff
• soaring
• protest
• charity
• landgrab

[murrayhay]

Careful there mate.. that's a LOT of brakes held on during most of the flight! Hope to get my 4x4 back on the road next month, should be down to England/Wales this year and hope to meet up for some blasting around the sky!

All the Best :-)

PS 'Cold'? Try coming to Scotland, mind you I was flying for about 40mins on the 10th (Feb) without even a T shirt on ;-)

[Reechforthesky]

@murrayhay HI! THE BRAKE THING........ Not as much as you think. I've extended the brake lines by 10 cms. The Tycoon has very short brake travel, I just wanted to bring the brake range a bit lower down so I didn't have to fly with my hands too high all the time. Checked it out with the designer and it's fine. Being a 2/3 reknown for it's short brake travel it's till a doddle to flare and 'kill' on the brakes even on windy days :)

[blinddataofficial]

nice work reech! as you no doubt figured - what you think is not a lot of wind at take off is usually a wind-shadow. Watch the rotor from that tree if there's any hint of E in it - it has a habit of trying to drop your wing just when you're committed!

If in doubt as to the true wind, the chaps at the airport happily give you a current reading when you call them to fly. 10mph and you're golden (that usually feels like no wind at T/O).

[Reechforthesky]

@blinddataofficial I'm assuming you mean any further East then NE............... ;)

[murrayhay]

Hi RftS, that makes it clear :-)

I've had a student with restricted flex range on one arm so we modified one side.

Personally often on long (2-3+ hr flights) I fly with my elbows resting on the harness as that positions my hands at the 'zero brake' position.

Some day I'll have to get myself a passport and head out to Austria to take up HP's offer of flying some Proto's ;-)

I LOVE short brakes (hence 2/3's 3's & Comp gliders :-)

[TheFlyingEffect]

What a nice site! Hope you keep the public rights!

[declanfleming]

oops .. left one of my other accounts logged in :D

[weirwolfarroo]

Paragliders face the same issues of territorial narkiness that kayakers face (only 2% free access on English/Welsh rivers) We should all do what the yakkers do and just ignore them. There really isn't a lot they can do once you've taken off! In the end they tend to give up.

Course we also face the territorialism of the various clubs and schools as well!

Cheers

[weirwolfarroo]

Sod 'em, fly anyway! Air piracy forever!

Glad you're back with the recons!

[goround5gohigh2]

Thanks Reech for whetting our winter jaded appetites.

Richard