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John Hamlett  All flights
National League 2023
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Turnpoint Flight on a Paraglider
Club
Cumbria
Glider
Ozone Rush 4
Date
8th April 2023
Start
13:10
Finish
17:14
Duration
4hrs 4mins
Takeoff
Barkin South
Landing
Canonbie
Coords
Takeoff
54.24483, -2.53312
Start
54.24465, -2.53253
TP1
54.65872, -2.55090
TP2
54.67003, -2.59432
TP3
54.86852, -2.58058
Finish
55.08393, -2.93887
Landing
55.08403, -2.93838
Distances and Score
Leg 1
46.11k
Leg 2
3.07k
Leg 3
22.11k
Leg 4
33.19k
Total
104.48k
Score
104.5
Open Distance
Total
97.0k
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Height   -   GPS data
Maximum Height
[15:15:09]
5781 ft
Lowest Save
[16:16:15]
1883 ft
Takeoff Height
[13:13:49]
1470 ft
Landing Height
[17:17:00]
312 ft
Total Ascent 29167 ft
Height Gain
Above Takeoff 4311 ft
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Maximum Climb
[16:16:37]
5.3 m/s
Minimum Climb
[16:16:53]
-5.3 m/s
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Speed
Maximum Speed
[16:16:17]
67.5 km/h
Average Speed
around course
25.6 km/h
Average Speed
over track length
38.6 km/h
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Tracklog
Flight Duration 4hrs 5mins
Track Points 14712
Recording Interval 1 secs
Statistics Interval 4 secs
Track Length 157.8 km
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Type Xc_tracer_ii
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Firmware Xc_tracer_ii_r05
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Out with Glenn, TimO, Mark and Andy at Barkin. As usual we tried to get away in a gaggle, but failed there, so once again it was every man for himself.

The meat of the flight was a mix of broken blue sky climbs and stronger cloud topped beauties, but the story really only took off late in the day… When Scotland became goal: )

After my Hartside Pass lowish save on the northernmost Pennines, the hills worked really well and this tiny little idea of making it over the border became a fixation! Climbs out to the A69 were promising but with nothing since Brampton I was begging out loud for one last necessary climb. -2… -3… -5 sink… All the clouds were dying off, the day was over, nothing on the ground looked promising. Suddenly then there is was… An isolated but well formed escalator - climbing now, the distant river marking the border came into sight. But yikes, I was drifting back towards Spadeadam airspace, and zooming in on FlySkyHy showed it just a few 360s away! I straightened out, taking a line to the nearest spot on the border it looked like a safe bet.

Crossing the river with plenty of height I whooped and faffed about with my camera… Job done! But then I saw another River through the town (Canonbie) a mile or so ahead… Was that the border? I had to try and cross it! Oh bugger - there was no way I'd get another climb. I tried to get closer but there were pylons and power lines and lambs in all the fields - it'd be dangerously tight. Not Worth the risk. I saw one safe empty field and decided I'd just have to land short.

I landed (poorly! ) with one question in my head… Is this Scotland? I pulled my phone out and before getting to maps saw GeoffC on whatsapp with a congratulations - he'd been watching on Livetrack. Boom! An inappropriate belly wiggling Scotsman gif to the gang was called for; )

Retrieve was a whole separate adventure. Flying while infected with my first case of covid, I knew hitching was best avoided. Calls to a couple of taxi company's went unanswered - who'd have thunk it on a Saturday night? So it had to be a six mile 'tab' as Westie would say, to Longtown, to catch a bus to Carlisle (bargain £2! Thanks UK gov cost of living crisis fare cap! )

I reached the station about 20.20 to find the last train south was the 20.04:(… But all kudos to Avanti it was delayed and ten minutes later I had a carriage all to myself to Oxenholme, where star Tim Rodgers had relocated my car from Barkin. Cheers Tim!

Altogether a very lucky day… Just kept rolling those dice!

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