Another frustrating weekend!

Sunday - reports from the hills said "stay at home": wind, rain, low cloud.

Saturday - cabin fever forced a trip to Mayobridge in remote hope of a flight and to introduce Ian F to a new site. Met a couple of fellow pilots, Colin D and Dave T, driving away from the site - "too windy" they said. And anyway the parking lay-by was occupied by a film crew. We all adjourned to a local hostelry for coffee/tea and scones. 

Suitably refreshed we returned to the hill. Film crew had gone. Of course the wind had no notion of easing off from the consistent 23mph, but Ian did a good job in assessing the characteristics of the site; how it could be flown and hazards avoided. 

The others left for home after a while and we went on a short tour of some of the other Mourne mountain sites I used to fly in the early days when I was much younger and fitter before heading home on yet another typical 'flying' day!

Here we go again!

Went out to Big Collin yesterday (Friday) more in hope than expectation. Wind southerly and varying from 14 - 25mph. Got some much needed exercise walking up and down the hill for an hour waiting to see if conditions would change. No such luck. Gave up and went to visit my brother in Ballymena!