Since my last post a lot of time past and a lot of things happended. I’m now slowly able to fly my Easyglider and bring it back to ground without crashing it. Also I can slowly detect thermal updrafts. Once for sure I will create a blog about weather and thermal updrafts.
Today I participated in a contest. It was just a contest within clubmembers but still it was my first contest and so I was curious about how things go.
As it was mostly for fun, any glider plane with an electric enginge could participate. The rules were simple. You take the engine for as long as you want to rise the plane as high as you want. Then you call the referee to start the clock. For three minutes you had to fly before landing in a designated area as close as possible to a marked target.
Already bringing the plane on a good level had it’s difficulties because there was some strong wind coming from south. Once up I failed twice out of four times to stay long enough. Once I landed after just two minutes and once I landed ten seconds before countdown. Still they gave me points.
The same was with my precision. I managed to land safely all the four times yet twice I had to turn on the engine again to bring the plane back up because I was too low too far. Even there, out of courtesy they gave me some points.
The result of the contest are yet to be calculated but I expect to be in the lower ranks. After all, I also was the rookie and the other members had some years of training but I recieved many compliments for my skills for someone flying only since some months.
After all it was a fun event. I will for sure try both, flying for a given time and land exactly on spot, some more until it comes naturally. I think this will help me a great deal for further progress.
