August 2010
2 posts
The Accident
Daniel, Guto, and I got up the ramp a bit before 11am. It had been a long week at work and I was telling the lads on the way up I was needing to clear my head. We hadn’t seen anybody flying as we drove up so our hopes weren’t that high.
It was blowing an easterly cross wind across the ramp but there were patches when it would swing round to the northeast and look flyable. Every time...
Mezzanine
Daniel, Guto, and I got up the ramp a little after midday. The forecast was for a perfect day of solid northeasterlies, but it had been blowing a light norwester since sun up. Nobody was excited, except for the fact it was the weekend.
We socialized a bit on the ramp until the wind dropped a bit and it was nearly 2pm. Although there was a solid inversion layer covering the southern side of the...