Hard work today, but very satisfying (despite some of my friends flying about twice as far). Ah, next time...
Yes, I had a good day: I did 23.1km from Beechmont to Beaudesert.
A very good flight, the first time I got beyond Flying Fox valley.
Here's the trace (minus the first 20 minutes which my GPS overwrote because
it's a GPS of very little brain). That red line also has a lot of swirls
in it that you can't see on that scale; imagine me turning like a silly bird
most of the way and you've got it :-)
The whole thing took almost 2.5 hours, with the first 45 min spent at launch
trying to find *any* lift at all. I missed the good launch window (which
Richard, Jessica and Paul took) by about 5 minutes. And I paid for being
tardy: once or twice I was already about to land because I was falling
out of the sky.
Eventually I got high enough to GO over the back (today at about 1200m ASL)
and did so but almost bombed out in front of Gordo's: only sink holes and
I was about to approach the bombout
there when I hit a useful thermal and got back from 470m to 1300m ASL.
(That's where it says KRSTYH on the track image and where there's some
very convoluted loops in the track).
