Piedrahita day 3: Tuesday

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  • LAUNCH:……………Piedrahita
  • LANDINGS:……..….2
  • TOTAL FLIGHTS:....251
  • TIME HOURS:………3.3 hours
  • TOTAL TIME:…..….132.8hours
  • WIND:……………….< 10 kts…….North West
  • WING:…………….…Nova Mentor 2
  • PHOTOS:…………. here
  • GPS MAP:…………..see "read
First Flight
We took off a little later in the day as it looked good for a long flight.
took off at 12:38
lost height early and really scratched around.
finally got back to launch about 1 1/2 hours after take off and got enough height to head towards Avila.
did not make it past the quarry spur and landed near the road about 9 km from launch. see photo above of pass at my landing
From vario:
max lift: 4.3m/sec,
max sink: 4.4m/sec
max height: 2379m
flight time: 2 hr 5min




Second Flight
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This was an evening flight and I launched at 7:18 pm
Most of my time was spent around launch and after an hour in the air I headed to town
circled our house and Annette took this photo
I landed at 8:28pm so a 1hour 10 minute flight.