Great news. Andrew Beaumont completed his 50 km cross country silver leg in his Astir CS today.
Here is what he had to say.
Just to let you know that I completed my 50K silver distance flight, but failing the height gain by a couple of hundred ft for the second time in a fortnight. Flew from Nympsfield to Rivar Hill, some 65K in Ihr 36mins although I messed around for a while even returning to Nympsfield before setting off.
I became lowish halfway, picked a field before climbing again and then had a good 1000ft gain to 3600ft (QFE) some 15km out and a final glide downwind to finish. Logger says my final glide angle was 46 to 1 so I arrived at about 2400ft QFE. ( Rivar hill being 30ft higher than NYM ) Only one problem was that battery failed half way,and as the electric vario stopped I wasn't so keen to try returning home. Fortunately the logger had new batteries.
It was a good day
David Jesty on the other hand flew upwind to Talgarth to fly the ridges before returning to very generously retreive me. Many thanks to him.
Andrew
Steve
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| Andrew in the Astir CS with syndicate parter Phil. |
Here is what he had to say.
Just to let you know that I completed my 50K silver distance flight, but failing the height gain by a couple of hundred ft for the second time in a fortnight. Flew from Nympsfield to Rivar Hill, some 65K in Ihr 36mins although I messed around for a while even returning to Nympsfield before setting off.
I became lowish halfway, picked a field before climbing again and then had a good 1000ft gain to 3600ft (QFE) some 15km out and a final glide downwind to finish. Logger says my final glide angle was 46 to 1 so I arrived at about 2400ft QFE. ( Rivar hill being 30ft higher than NYM ) Only one problem was that battery failed half way,and as the electric vario stopped I wasn't so keen to try returning home. Fortunately the logger had new batteries.
It was a good day
David Jesty on the other hand flew upwind to Talgarth to fly the ridges before returning to very generously retreive me. Many thanks to him.
Andrew
Steve
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