08 April 2003

Tuned Bit difficult to tell from last Saturday's flight, but my reseting of the tip wand socket and the sprog seemed to have pretty much cleared things up. It'll take a flight in good conditions to really tell, but certainly I had no major turns. So maybe the tip wand socket was strangely set up rotated by someone who perceived a turn. The trailing edge is also now pretty symmetric, still maybe a slight rise on the right: the screw is six threads out compared to four on the other side, but I guess this is of no relevance since the engineering tolerance on the tensioning cable cannot be much better than a mm, and that is the aproximate difference. I need to do several long glides, however, to be really sure. I just didn't detect any turns in the last flight.   comment [] 7:59:12 PM     Whack. Again. No recycling required, however. Short flight last weekend, was forecast 9Hpa North, and although there was little wind the conditions indeed were very limited. Unbelievably there was an inversion at 1200m which killed everything, although Dave stayed up an hour. I found myself sinking in front of Sasso at -2m/s so headed off (too) low to Picutz and didn't make it. However I picked up a nice thermal over the Leggiuno ridge and climbed out enough to make a 2nd failed attempt to reach Sangiano. Headed back to the club, came to land and the wind switched 90deg West just as I was running out the airspeed: up, stalled left wing and whack. Biggest I had since starting flying again, pretty much no control and just let the glider go in. Surprisingly no damage... About time I got a decent flight in. Conditions are very frustrating recently, with always something being a bit tricky, cold, landing complications, etc. This period up to end May can be very frustrating, however, I recall. Stay cool. comment [] 7:54:29 PM

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