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Jeff O'Brien
8/3/2010 11:59 PM
AN AIRSPACE ISSUE - with a hang gliding problem... The AIRSPACE continues to baffle and frustrate pilots and it VERY obscure and subjective. There are warnings, ZERO scores, nebulous buffers, barometric pressure, real altitudes. Launches inside airspace... etc. It's a ROYAL mess with little concrete information. An embarrassment for meet organizers.
Pre-Worlds day 3 - Task 2
We go up to Cucco launch for a 101km out and return that turns technical.
All is chill before we launch but airspace is KILLING the FUN around here! Launch is in airspace. Launch is 3930ft. We are NOT allowed to go over 6000ft. near launch! So 2000ft. over launch and you'd better high tail it away or ZERO. Dustin got a zero for day one - not a warning like we were told we would get on the first day. I hope there's a protest in the works. There is airspace up and down the valley. It's debilitating and a pain in the ass to watch out for. Davis mentioned that the meet organizers promised that airspace would not be an issue during their bid to hold the meet.
They call a task up and down the valley, just jumping two ridges, it doesn't look to be too technical. (it turns out to be) There's an inversion and we don't get that high early. People are fighting for position over each of the peaks and as a result, the gaggles for the first portion of the task are THICK. I feel that my gaggle tolerance is pretty high at the moment. I get frustrated less and seem to be able to work through or around traffic jams.
The cruise down to the first turnpoint is relatively easy. I make a mistake, have to come back 1km for a climb, and Zippy and Shapiro get the jump on me. I run into 800fpm for a few circles and catch up to Wolfi who is over me. We take a wingtip to wingtip glide for fun. At this point I see Dustin leading the gaggle back low from the first turn back to the ridge. Zippy and Shapiro are right behind with a dozen or more pilots. They running fast and low. I get the turn and see the mess of pilots struggling low on the ridge. Eventually we piece together a climb, but Dustin has got away. He calls out climbs from ahead.
Shapiro and I come back in close contact and we thermal with others over another flying site in the area. Yesterday we flew over a flying site. It's cool to rock up on a mountain and see folks setting up to fly. We went round and round with the free flyer that had just launched from the peak.
On our way back, after we jumped back on to the Monte Cucco ridge, it was somewhat slow going. Climbs weren't getting me that high and I had to ride just a few hundred feet over the trees burbling and waiting to hit something. It was a slog back to launch and I eventually burbled below launch on my way to the second turnpoint. Shapiro and Zippy were still close by.
Finally I hit 500fpm that got me to 5700 right over the biggest peak near Cucco, but I pulled out due to AIRSPACE. Kept pushing to the last turn. The last turnpoint was a big cylinder on a high peak that was behind two other smaller ridges. Dustin had warned us about the un-landable terrain, but the lift I needed just wasn't there, and I pushed in deeper than I wanted to. Zippy was with me.
There was a field or two you could fly-on-the-wall in, but I didn't want to exercise that option. Tried thermalling in a bubble literally 50ft. off a grassy hilltop. Didn't work. Zippy burbled ahead. I went to cross a saddle with 80ft. of tree clearance. I had just a couple of seconds to assess if there were landings on the other side. There were not... I literally had moments to decide if I could squirm out the valley if I needed to, and I hit a bubble that turned into a tight ripper that got me up and out. Whew. I'd unintentionally got myself into a tight spot and I was thankful the lift was there to get me away.
Zippy eventually pulled the trigger and went for the turnpoint even deeper in, and I followed. We immediately turned back. Zippy cleared the un-landable ridge on the way back by 75ft. I had a bit more altitude and made a bee line for more friendly terrain. It was 12 to 1 to goal, but we had a bit of friendly ridge to work on the way home. It turned 14 to 1, then a German pilot I was following hit 400fpm right over a spine. I took two turns with him and pulled rope while he was on the backside of his turn. Flew moderately aggressively into goal at around 60mph arriving with a couple hundred feet. Rewarding day.
The scene in the LZ was festive and chill. We sipped beers and sat in the shade of our gliders chatting about the fun. A beautiful day.
Airtime: 3.15. Flights: 1. Miles: 62.
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