Beach-Web for July 2008 Today is Tuesday, 1 July, 2008
(and it's not EVEN 01:00 a.m. on Tuesday - 1 July) - SO today is ONLY
the first day of the month - give me a break - I need some time to do
some things worthy of web-publishing...
HOWEVER, if you're really starved for "Bill-Stuff" - here's some 'left-overs' from last month:
Friday & Saturday, 27th / 28th (June - last month) - yes, again, even MORE Hang Gliding - the weather was even less than 'great' and - well - I should have telephoned before driving out there... I had two flights on Friday, 3 on Saturday - none were stellar in terms of air-time, - but I did get one 'save' at 276 feet of altitude and took this one to about 600 feet - pretty good. I also got a couple of 30 minute flights -
This is an OLD picture - of me and my cuddly glider - However, these days I'm not using the green-fin in the back.
Someone suggested that I am 'good enough' to not need the fin on the launch and tow-up... I have to admit that now that I've towed without it a few times it's not as scary as it was the FIRST TIME I didn't use it. I've video-taped a lot of the flights and the difference between having the fin and not having the fin is noticeable, but not drastically... Also, theoretically, thermaling (climbing) would be more 'efficient' with no fin. Supposedly the glider turns tighter, with less drag without the fin.
The first time I launched, towed-up and flew without the fin was my 'personal best' time of 2 hours and 20 minutes (more on this in the link below)...
I'm learning more about how to thermal or climb (to go UP instead of down) - which is a fairly major achievement in my life, and/or for ANY hang-gliding-pilot. This is a key skill - and I'm developing it very well with help, mostly, from Mr. Kerry the tug-tow-plane pilot at Florida Ridge.
This link to Flightlog.Org gets you most of the information for my last 170 something flights, if you click-around and explore the link...
And/or if you click on this link- it will take you to Mr._Bill's Gallery web-page(s) on the Apple server for a short (2 - 3 minutes) videos of most of my flights - nothing stellar, though, in terms of video quality or quantity. A LOT of this / these videos will start to disappear - and there will only be about six months of video on here at any one time...
Mr. Bill's best hang-gliding-flight (Ever) - see the FlightLog.Org web-page, here...
HOWEVER, if you're really starved for "Bill-Stuff" - here's some 'left-overs' from last month:
Friday & Saturday, 27th / 28th (June - last month) - yes, again, even MORE Hang Gliding - the weather was even less than 'great' and - well - I should have telephoned before driving out there... I had two flights on Friday, 3 on Saturday - none were stellar in terms of air-time, - but I did get one 'save' at 276 feet of altitude and took this one to about 600 feet - pretty good. I also got a couple of 30 minute flights -
This is an OLD picture - of me and my cuddly glider - However, these days I'm not using the green-fin in the back.
Someone suggested that I am 'good enough' to not need the fin on the launch and tow-up... I have to admit that now that I've towed without it a few times it's not as scary as it was the FIRST TIME I didn't use it. I've video-taped a lot of the flights and the difference between having the fin and not having the fin is noticeable, but not drastically... Also, theoretically, thermaling (climbing) would be more 'efficient' with no fin. Supposedly the glider turns tighter, with less drag without the fin.
The first time I launched, towed-up and flew without the fin was my 'personal best' time of 2 hours and 20 minutes (more on this in the link below)...
I'm learning more about how to thermal or climb (to go UP instead of down) - which is a fairly major achievement in my life, and/or for ANY hang-gliding-pilot. This is a key skill - and I'm developing it very well with help, mostly, from Mr. Kerry the tug-tow-plane pilot at Florida Ridge.
This link to Flightlog.Org gets you most of the information for my last 170 something flights, if you click-around and explore the link...
And/or if you click on this link- it will take you to Mr._Bill's Gallery web-page(s) on the Apple server for a short (2 - 3 minutes) videos of most of my flights - nothing stellar, though, in terms of video quality or quantity. A LOT of this / these videos will start to disappear - and there will only be about six months of video on here at any one time...
Mr. Bill's best hang-gliding-flight (Ever) - see the FlightLog.Org web-page, here...
and-or see the track-log over Google Earth Image(s), here... small_image larger_image (1 megabyte)
If you want MORE left-overs from June, 2008 - here's the link to that WHOLE web-page: http://www.vikingasia.org/BeachWeb/BeachWeb2008/Jun08/Jun08.html
Archived BeachWeb monthly site(s): Click here for a list of the archived months
If you want MORE left-overs from June, 2008 - here's the link to that WHOLE web-page: http://www.vikingasia.org/BeachWeb/BeachWeb2008/Jun08/Jun08.html
Archived BeachWeb monthly site(s): Click here for a list of the archived months
last updated: 12:22 p.m. on Friday 04 July, 2008 revID: 1c