Month: August 2024

No Drama but last flight for awhile.

Another good one after a no fly day yesterday. The wing got totally soaked during layout and initial propwash. The combination of wet heavy wing and moisture laden air made it sluggish to come up and susceptible to wild swings and collapse. Two attempts and two aborted.

Today I tried to dry the field as much as possible by blowing it with the paramotor. The wing still came up slow but it was stable throughout the launch. The climb rate was poor below 400 ft. But it improved as I climbed into higher air.

I revisited the area where I encountered the migration earlier in the week but only saw a few small flocks.

This was fun. Explored to the NorthEast, found a solar farm and ran into a migration of Igrets.

First flight since Skip’s funeral Mass and Tropical Storm Debby. Short window before the boomers started to build.

No drama