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Turnpoint Flight on a Paraglider
Club
Thames Valley
Glider
Gin Calypso
Date
8th April 2023
Start
13:35
Finish
14:32
Duration
56mins
Takeoff
Golden Ball
Landing
Hilmarton
Coords
Takeoff
51.37282, -1.82035
Start
51.37192, -1.81612
TP1
51.38590, -1.84320
TP2
51.38352, -1.83960
TP3
51.38112, -1.85033
Finish
51.47612, -1.97095
Landing
51.47588, -1.97012
Distances and Score
Leg 1
2.45k
Leg 2
0.37k
Leg 3
0.79k
Leg 4
13.49k
Total
17.10k
Score
17.1
Open Distance
Total
15.8k
Tracklog
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Yes
Flight map
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Duration 0:00   Takeoff Distance 0
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Climb and Speed averaged over 4 second intervals.

These values may be lower than those shown by a flight instrument, which has access to continuous raw data.

Red values indicate suspect data, because the tracklog contains invalid points.

Metric units are used for all chart data, except for Height which is shown in feet.

Height   -   Pressure data
Maximum Height
[13:52:08]		 2674 ft
Lowest Save
[14:06:08]		 1129 ft
Takeoff Height
[13:33:17]		 449 ft
Landing Height
[14:33:02]		 -115 ft
Total Ascent 5679 ft
Height Gain
Above Takeoff 2224 ft
Units
Climb   -   Pressure data
Maximum Climb
[13:40:51]		 2.8 m/s
Minimum Climb
[13:58:59]		 -4.0 m/s
Units
Speed
Maximum Speed
[14:05:07]		 58.5 km/h
Average Speed
around course		 18.0 km/h
Average Speed
over track length		 33.4 km/h
Units
Tracklog
Flight Duration 59mins
Track Points 3585
Recording Interval 1 secs
Statistics Interval 4 secs
Track Length 33.3 km
Invalid Positions
[< 1%]		 1
Units
Flight instrument
Type Syride
Model Sys'Nav Xl
Firmware 1.19
Notes

Climb and Speed averaged over 4 second intervals.

These values may be lower than those shown by a flight instrument, which has access to continuous raw data.

Red values indicate suspect data, because the tracklog contains invalid points.

Average Speed around course is measured from Start to Finish points.

Track Length is the cumulative distance between track points from Takeoff to Landing.

You can change the default units displayed - see the Options page.

Needing to go straight to Bath after flying, I scrounged a lift from Malcolm. After most of the crowds had got away, I finally had a go as it got a bit strong and gusty. Quickly got into a climb under Ella and a few others, and fairly steadily up to 3,000. Just like Friday, the others in the climb pushed forward towards better clouds - but downwind fever gave me a blue hole to cross.

Halfway to Beckhampton I found a zero and, helped by a buzzard, it turned into a real climb that got me past the Devizes road and the A4 (which I had my eye on as my possible hitching route to Bath). I then glided towards Calne, but realised I was going to pass north of it. Mike Coupe saw me struggling in another zero and zoomed to join me; after a few turns he was well above me, and I couldn't stay with him as he turned that one into a proper climb and went on his way.

I aimed for a football field in the village of Hilmarton. I worried for a minute that it might be a school field and so locked up on Easter Saturday, but a bunch of children and adults started waving from the playground at the end of it as I flew over. As I packed up, the kids asked lots of intelligent questions about paragliding (they enjoyed lifting my vario over their heads), while one of their mothers sent the video that she'd taken of my landing to my phone. Then another offered me a lift to Chippenham station! But delegated the task to her husband. The second friendly reception on a football field in two days!

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