10 June 2004

tuning my litesport, bis Checked out a few things last weekend. Elastic had gone on stinger, bit of a fiddle to replace but easy in the end. Checked the battens, all OK which shows that the original shape (bent) was very unlikely the first 20hours of flying (30 on it since then...). So it was delivered with rather dodgy battens shapes. The VG rope (bottom part) was indeed twisted once around the lower cable retainer - hence the extra friction. Easy to sort out when you know what to do - easiest to pull off the bottom of the upright. At least with the normal uprights and FAST bar re-threading the rope is easy. The glider now flies good and straight with no feeling of skewness... seems I've got completely through that phase now. 1:56:29 PM     Decent enough flight in bumpy conditions last Sunday. 2h20 with lots of sink between thermals, climbs usual 2 to 4 m/s up, but several pilots went down crossing valleys. I had a big climb out (850m) from low down in the Brusciatta, but only to just under 1750m. I didn't go further than Nudo, seeing a few coming back low low low from Colonna. Finally I got a bit bored and tried going out in front, got to 1950m, and then spent the best part of 45mins thermalling over Cardana and Bogno. By contrast, Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and today have all been fantastic flying days... 1:47:49 PM

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