I had another 2.5 hour gliding flight in the Junior on Wednesday in some lovely thermals. I used an app on my iPhone (Free flight Airlog) to track my wandering progress and show it on a map. As you can see, I didn’t want to get too far away from the airfield just in case the lift disappeared! They don’t like it if you land in a field in the middle of nowhere and they have to come and get you.
The app takes GPS readings every 30 seconds – that’s not enough precision to show all the circling I had to do in thermals but enough to show my meandering path.
Here’s the map.
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This was my furthest wandering from the field. West to Oakdale, south to Razorback near Picton, and East to the Menangle racecourse. Now I have 11 flights on the Junior and I can progress to the next glider – an Astir – a more sophisticated one with retractable undercarriage.
