Monday, March 12, 2012

Moving forward .. sort of quickly !

Last post was about a week ago , sitting in a town called Cobar , nice little place in the middle of NSW. worked on the motors trying to get one working propery and maybe even two again , Went for a run ,was ready to fly bu 3pm , took off , in rough conditions , went to power up no power ... no power , tried to turn around , no way to clear the power lines , ditched in a field with goat bones all around me , Graveyard for dead goats !!
Changed carbs out , waited untill 5pm and took off again wind head to cross foward speed about 24 km hr with bar on full . 3 hrs battle took me about 60km and a nice landing spot fot eh evening , not too bad everybit helps . much patience requiredfrom my ground team whom are all following in the truck and travelling very slowly as well . The next few day are a blur .. take off early , land early due to wind and turbulance cross head wind . full bar required most of the time . Legs and arms getting very tired as well as my mind .

210km , 220 km , 300km, 220km day done in the past 4 days push, push , we are behind on Km and days of flying from the storms of last week. Our daily km is now 120km down from 200 not enough.
Reached the town of broken hill , nice evening comming into a big mining town, landed out near the airport abd had a nice pizza night in town !
Big day running south from here toward Mildura 300km or so , landing just short of Mildura .
Big group discussion this night , things needed to be sorted out , all's good again I hope. Left Mildura early, taking off and flying thru the vineyards and south of Mildura to avoid controlled airspace and the city .
Flew about 60km untill I saw nothing but tree's landed , due to not have a charged radio and not knowing about how far the forest (national park) streched , turns out it was only 24km. Took off again about 2:30pm , not much wind but rough thermals and headwind when I started south ,up and own like a yoyo , managed another 60km in 2 hrs . Got my butt kicked in a dust devil as it felt like I was entering an area of convergence .. landed quickly . Waited it out for 2 hrs , took off and flew another 80km in sweet evening air, ahhh I need more of this . Great camping area no mosquito's , good supper and rest , 220km for the day !

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