Ouch! Looks like maybe a downwind launch. When the wind is from behind a hill, it can rotor over the top and blow up into your face, faking you out that the wind is coming in. ...
I have looked at the video again and studied terrain and timing of events. I have a h...otor, my guess is that lift was being generated on beach sand...uld have combined with thermal lift from heated rock and sand...
Oh cr@p, really? Can you fix it for me and repost back here? I actually...gical signs of the ancient inland sea before broken hill were awesome-- see if @...nyway, that day was great(er) and there were Actual Hills...
henry my friend humbling exsperiece but i must say just great how you put this up...tributed. sink on the outside of the lift band where the water meets the sand and defined up as the sand...
You mean Potholes lake? I believe that area has a large formation of sand dunes. The dam'd up a portion and the water backfilled that area that makes it look striking. But to no avail - it's mother nature with a man-made lake to give it the remarkable formation.
One of the pilot landed on the beach when engine went out. His trike has fat tires which made the landing on beach safer. Mine are "wheelbarrow" tires, it will definitely flip over on the soft sand beach. So the tires do make difference on the sandy beach.
Y'all look so serious. ;) Yet I know everyone is always cracking...stuff we're bringing as well, and we've been practicing the way of the crane (& I've fully briefed...
I had kameron from northwing look at it at sand point. It looked to be about 3/4 of its life. I think not knowing how that rip got there at this point i think having ka...
An appropriate tradition to start, Damien. I've got a little plastic white horse that came from a whisky bottle of the same name, dating back to my first soaring flight off White Horse Hill....