With a forecast NE wind for the afternoon I headed to Robin Young's. Wind was very light so I walked to takeoff, only to find the wind very light and blowing along the cliff from the east. By then I had got an email from Ian Cross reporting conditions flyable at Agnew's Hill and LOA clearance had been obtained from ATC. A quick peek over the back of Young's showed two paragliders soaring Agnew's in the distance.
Just as I was about to head to Agnew's and not looking forward to the steep climb up, an old friend and former UHPC hang glider pilot, Loudon Blair and his friend Jack Montgomery arrived with their radio control model gliders. After Jack's story about being flung into the field by the electric fence on a previous occasion, we made sure to use the proper stile.
After launching his soaring model and flying around for a while, Loudon handed me the controls and I had a most enjoyable time cruising the model around to Ballycoose and back. There was fairly consistent light lift out in front of the car park and when I handed control back to Loudon he brought it in for a perfect landing at our feet.
I decided to head over to Agnew's and arrived to see Ian landing out in front of the cliff and well away from the cars, having lost what lift there was. There was another wing still in the air (Steve Hill) - see photo - and three cars on site but I decided I couldn't face the climb up so late in the day and with wind probably dying (according to the nearby wind turbines) so I contented myself by taking a photo and headed home.
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