Yesterday I missed a pretty epic autumn day. Wasn't sure today would be HG or PG, in the end it was overcast this morning so I decided for the latter. Off to the training field and alone did a couple of take offs which went fine.
Took off at 3pm from Nudo: down to the Brusciatta and into a thermal and up quite fast to around 1300m (no altimeter, I didn't get the GPS mounting sorted out yet). Over to Nudo and up high, in fact the lift was pretty strong and I didn't fancy too much getting under the Cu's. Manfred was flying around in a Swift, sharing a thermal wasn't particularly comfortable. All in all, easy to get up and around, not too much wind.
Flew around there a bit and then over into the valley to land in 4 strada. I'm still a bit nervous on landing, a bit too much pendulum and I seem to come down, rather than forward. But it's all so slow that it's really not an issue.
8:12:54 PM 
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