- Tue Dec 19, 2017 12:28 am
#401666
Hi all you Krazy Krazy Hangglider Dudes and Dudettes!
I was hoping for one more day this year, but Mother Nature and family obligation says no. So I'm closing it out with
18 flying days:
6 at Tres Pinos training hill and winch tow
12 at Ft. Funston
84 flights: 26 at the cliff, and 58 at the training hill or towing.
26 3/4 hours up in the ayr
Flights with 5 wings: T2C, Sport2, Freedom 170, Falcon something, Alpha 210 with the Easy-Flier setup
I wasn't healthy for the first half of the year, so that got scrunched into summer and fall. I didn't get to the mountains this year, but I'm happy to have gotten lots of launch/landing practice. Tres Pinos is great for that. You can winch up, land on top of the training hill, do a quick hop back down to the winch for another round, all day. The top-landing is also good for practicing up-hill downwind/crosswind landings, I recommend it.
I bought the Sport2 for my son to fly. But it only got taken out a few times because he decided to go on a Walkabout in Peru for the summer. I replaced my old T2 with a new T2C, which was expensive but really is a fantastic hangglider. I broke a downtube on my second landing of my first day with it, which was a bummer. I came in high, and was floating around at the back of the landing area at Funston killing some altitude. So I was flying slow as I descended through the gradient, and T2C does have a more abrupt stall than the Sp2 or Freedom, by a lot. Crunch! Be assertive during your approaches, everyone! But that was my only bad landing for the season, aside from dropping the bar for minor whacks a few times.
Next year I hope to perform at least 100 flights so that launch/landing starts to feel really natural. My airtime goal is 50 hours. I want to get to the mountains at least twice, I'm thinking of trips to Dunlap and Andy Jackson. Lets go on a flying trip!
The Easy-Flier was pretty interesting. I think it has the possibility of bringing new flyers into the sport by making that first day more fun and flyinglike.
All in all, it was a good hanggliding year f for me. How was your season? What are your plans for the coming year?
Push out, /jd
I was hoping for one more day this year, but Mother Nature and family obligation says no. So I'm closing it out with
18 flying days:
6 at Tres Pinos training hill and winch tow
12 at Ft. Funston
84 flights: 26 at the cliff, and 58 at the training hill or towing.
26 3/4 hours up in the ayr
Flights with 5 wings: T2C, Sport2, Freedom 170, Falcon something, Alpha 210 with the Easy-Flier setup
I wasn't healthy for the first half of the year, so that got scrunched into summer and fall. I didn't get to the mountains this year, but I'm happy to have gotten lots of launch/landing practice. Tres Pinos is great for that. You can winch up, land on top of the training hill, do a quick hop back down to the winch for another round, all day. The top-landing is also good for practicing up-hill downwind/crosswind landings, I recommend it.
I bought the Sport2 for my son to fly. But it only got taken out a few times because he decided to go on a Walkabout in Peru for the summer. I replaced my old T2 with a new T2C, which was expensive but really is a fantastic hangglider. I broke a downtube on my second landing of my first day with it, which was a bummer. I came in high, and was floating around at the back of the landing area at Funston killing some altitude. So I was flying slow as I descended through the gradient, and T2C does have a more abrupt stall than the Sp2 or Freedom, by a lot. Crunch! Be assertive during your approaches, everyone! But that was my only bad landing for the season, aside from dropping the bar for minor whacks a few times.
Next year I hope to perform at least 100 flights so that launch/landing starts to feel really natural. My airtime goal is 50 hours. I want to get to the mountains at least twice, I'm thinking of trips to Dunlap and Andy Jackson. Lets go on a flying trip!
The Easy-Flier was pretty interesting. I think it has the possibility of bringing new flyers into the sport by making that first day more fun and flyinglike.
All in all, it was a good hanggliding year f for me. How was your season? What are your plans for the coming year?
Push out, /jd