Newcastle Hang Gliding Club

After weeks of Xmas rain, Peter, Warren, Ben, Kieran got a few days of xc. After more days of rain, the next wave of pilots below managed to suck some more airtime out of the green landscape.
(Simon broke his personal distance and duration…well done.)

Glider line up… (on ‘green’ grass!)
Cam - (Too sexy for his… pants)
Warren

Check out the movie before YouTube yanks the song;

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyd7iY0IB6g

Unfortunately some moisture got into the waterproof housing and, towards the end of the flight, reached cloud base before I did.

Shot with GoPro on the keel. Using GoPro tripod mount and vario, velcro mount.

We drove up to manilla on thursday night, and awoke to a rainbow, and high cloud covering the sky. Thankfully, the cloud broke up a bit over the next few hours and a bunch of hang glider pilots made our way up to the top of the hill.

With the paraglider pilots all on the North East launch, and light cycles coming straight in on all launches, Conrad & I decided to set up on the West launch where we hoped for better chances once the sun had passed overhead. Pete, Richard and Nigel decided to go back down to their cabins for beer.

Borah 2 wean 2 4 ways 2 manilla 2 Godfrey. 96km. Don 70 I'm. Death bomb. Ozzie dnf. Dustan double bomb.