Week 1 Day 3

With box of fully charged batteries we set off to the airfield only to discover that the tailwheel of the DG was completely flat. Undaunted we joined the queue to launch in third place and changed the tailwheel assembly faster than a formula one pitstop. Julian and Merv were first to launch and had a super flight running the Par Cours,  Adrian and G had a very similar flight as the Duo met the DG running the opposite way. Mark was very pleased to make his longest flight to date having successfully conquered the airsickness and they manged to get to the Italian border and cloudbase at 11000'. Ed in the DG turned about 10k short of the border but couldn't resist the fun to be had on the Par Cours, we eventually left the peaks in seach of wave. After a very slow climb from 5500 to 7000 we moved on to find a slightly better area that took us to 7500 but by then it was 20:00 with only 30 mins left we flew towards the south and contacted 6-8 knots that tooks us back to 8000' with only 15 mins left. Time was running out, so to use up some of the excess height, Ed and Merv practiced some prolonged spinning which was most entertaining, especially the loop after the recovery that Ed wasn't expecting while he was videoing the spinning characteritics of the DG! We landed at 20:20 with 10 mins to spare, the tug pilot who had waited patiently for us yesterday had given up, only Julian remained to collect us. A great day was had by all. Total flight time for today 12:45