Wednesday, April 29, 2009

Redemption

Day 5, Task 2. They decided to give us an 86 mile task today with one turnpoint. I launched near the back of the line but had a good tow up to a gaggle. Long story short, I had an AWESOME flight. I made goal and not too far behind the leaders I think. I came in with Jeff Shapiro and Ben Dunn, but I'm not sure which start time they took. I'll have to wait until tommorrow to see the results. I'm glad I had this flight since I was pretty bummed about yesterday's flight. It was great conditions with my averager on some climbs stuck on 900 fpm.

There was a bit of confusion on where exactly goal was and I just landed where I saw other gliders. Turns out the land owner did not appreciate us there and made us hike our gear out about 1/2 mile under one fence and over another gate. At least he didn't call the police?

Here is a clip of some in flight footage I shot while on glide. Looking forward to tommorrow.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

THATS ME BOY !!! just had to knock a bit of dust off the wings. if you got a little dust left you just leave it behind today with the rest of those hotdogs! FLY HIGH, FLY FAR, FLY FAST!!!!!!!!!!!!! looking forward to hearing about you smokin' the rest of the field today! ROCK ON ERIC. YOU THE MAN!

Unknown said...

Go man Go. You guys are doing great Eric. Keep it up.