Pilot’s view towards the Blue Mountains at 4,400 feet.
It was a lovely gliding day yesterday with some puffy cumulus clouds up at 5,000 feet and plenty of strong lift. I broke my PB with a flight of 2 hours 34 minutes. It was a very enjoyable experience, but a bit tiring having to concentrate for that amount of time.
There’s lots of circling involved to stay in the thermals, then once I reach 4,500 feet I head off to a different patch.
I can’t go above that height near Camden because that is “controlled airspace” up there and you have to have a transponder and a flight plan and talk to the air traffic controllers which is all a bit complex and boring.
So I explored westward almost as far as The Oaks, and eastwards to the main Sydney-Canberra freeway, the Hume Highway.
- Circling in a thermal.
Above is a picture out of the front looking towards the Blue Mountains.
All this gliding is making my knees browner.
