Hi Todd, hi James It almost sounds like you are having a very good time at Omarama. Make sure you pick the brains of Gavin, Lemmy etc. as much as you can during your first week. Every little bit of local knowledge will come very handy when you are on your own later on. As beautiful as those mountains are, they can make your blood pressure rise quite rapidly if not treated with respect. Just one more bit of advice before I go. LEAVE THOSE SHEEP ALONE!!! Don't have too much fun. Talk to you soon!!! Bernard -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Todd Sandercock Sent: Tuesday, 6 March 2007 6:39 AM To: Discussion of issues relating to Soaring in Australia. Subject: Re: [Aus-soaring] FW: [Augc-people] Re: new zealand Hey all, Things are going great here. we have had 2 good wave days that have been a heap of fun.
Day 1: flying with gavin we initially set off following james but after a while gavin thought it would be good to teach me about ridge flying so we airbraked down to about 1000ft above the valley floor. 2 passes later we were back at the top again as the wind was blowing straight up the ridge and the sun was also straight on it. from there we pushed upwind jumping a couple ridges and contacted the rotor. gavin tought me a couple tricks about rotor flying and before long we were straight into strong wave marked by a long line of rotor cloud. we then proceeded up to mt cook and then back down all the way to the dingle were we airbraked down onto the ridge again and got home from there on the many ridges inbetween. Day 2: day 2 i flew with lemmy. he did not seem to have much input into my flying so i ended up doing whatever i wanted. initially we went down sout on some wave at about 15000ft on a 500 km task but the blue wave deteriorated so i turned around and headed for hame again along the same wave. after a while the ridge ran out so the wave did to so it was time to find a new wave. i headed for the back of magic mountain and found some good rotor out in the blue and it was all good from there. some how i managed to make it from there to some more wave just to the west of the ben ohau range and then all the way up to mt cook. then i went home the long way jumping upwind onto other waves to the west. all of that was about 400km or so landing at 7:15. a good day really see ya Todd Reg Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: These guys seem to like the land of the One Day Cricket greats 5th march. wit hthe promising weather outlook Gavin set us a 500km down south, then back to mount cook, then home to omarama. We took a tow and released quite low in a good thermal rising up mt terrible. at 6500 we ventured out and after a bit of stooging around with 2 other duo discus' and contacted quite strong wave. After bumming around at 15,000 waiting for other gliders to catch up we lost contact with the wave, and headed out in search of this newfound (well to me anyway) form of lift. and we kept searching, and we kept searching, and then we looked behind us, and then we said bugger, well i did, gavin is what id call optomistic. I scampered back to the ridge (which was now above us) only to find it wasnt really working, which was good as one of my objectives was to practice on the ridges. The rest of the flight we spent cruising around ridges and mountains, mostly at or below ridge top height. Ive got to admit i found myself fairly nervous as we glid down unlandable valleys (unless you like rocky creek beds or lakes) to ridges that we hoped wernt being supressed by wave. Todd is still up, they were having a ball at 15000 belting down south last time i heard. in all, damn good fun. im getting this undeniable feeling that we all may be living on the wrong side of the tasman, mountains to fly on in summer and ski on in winter. it s just a feeling, but yet to be confirmed. james. _______________________________________________ Augc-people mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe from this list, visit http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/options/augc-people Enter your email address (no password required) and click the 'Unsubscribe' button. Follow the instructions in the email that will be sent to you to confirm. Direct enquiries to mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ Aus-soaring mailing list [email protected] To check or change subscription details, visit: http://lists.internode.on.net/mailman/listinfo/aus-soaring Send instant messages to your online friends http://au.messenger.yahoo.com
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