Ready there? Launching, three two one! That's good, just keep your weight forward
That's nice. OK. Long steps. Lovely [music]
So because I've got lift, I don't need to stay on the slope.
Right, yeah I just glided into wind, in continuous lift,
there's another little beep. I'm just trying to follow the lifty line
So I'm already shifting there, it was more lift on the right, I've got a little bit of
brake on either side Now there's no lift so I'm just accelerating,
gliding through sinky air. OK, don't seem to be finding anything at the
moment, and I've got two wings that are nearby, not in lift.
That was just my first push out, let's go back in again ...
Lift there ... now I was going to turn right, but I've got my right brake on and there's
no pressure, so now I'm just extending the turn ...
To, there! There's something, so I can turn on that.
Now I'm looking around to the right, there's a glider on approach, he's got a lot of time
to see me turning. There's the core again.
Other glider's behind me on the right, I'll go around behind him
Now did you notice we drifted back over the ridge quite a lot there?
And now, pointing into wind with a bit of brake on, and I've got 4 Ks an hour.
So I can't use these very far back. Yeah, so the only way I'm going to get up
there, with the other boys, is by going right out over the fields, getting enough distance
to drift back with the climb. I'm in lift, flying slowly, lots and lots
of brake on, I'm just, I'm not going to turn, yeah yeah, I'm just floating up as high as
I can, and trying to avoid getting out the front of it ...
Still very very good lift, I might turn back for that.
Turn right, lean right, round we go. There's another wing with us, so I'm opening
out slightly. That's good, but that's probably my last turn,
because any further back it's going to start drifting more.
JOHN>> It's got a very tight turn on it, hasn't it?
GREG>> Yeah, that's why I bought it! It's a dream to thermal.
OK, so what do you see out ahead of us? JOHN>> OK, I see clouds, little wispy ones
and some big ones. GREG>> Yup
JOHN>> Like a little line of clouds coming this way.
GREG>> Where do you think the thermal source is from this cloud?
JOHN>> Ah, OK, should be probably ... the brown fields?
GREG>> Yup! So I'm going to go straight for the brown fields.
What's my best glide, into wind? With a bit of speedbar, or no speedbar?
JOHN>> Into wind? I'd go speedbar. GREG: OK? So, off we go ... speedbar (trimmers
off) [MUSIC]
Thank you baby, through the inversion [Niviuk mating call]