Day 10: Sunday It was another pleasant day but with difficult soaring conditions. I decided to leave the good aircraft for the other guys and take the baby of the fleet -the Junior – for a local flight to do some aerobatics and catch it all on video with my GoPro.
I helped the others get going, then took a launch and climbed up in some broken thermals. There were half-a-dozen hang gliders also operating from Forbes so I kept a good lookout for them.
I tootled around for a while, found a quiet spot, then did some wingovers and a couple of loops. Great fun. It’s a while since I’ve done any aerobatics but I still find them very enjoyable.
Here’s a still picture taken from the GoPro video. I’ll edit the video and post it later.
Most of the guys returned early, but Julian stayed in the air to finish his 300k task in difficult conditions. It looks like he got his Gold distance and his Diamond goal in that one flight.
We derigged the DG1000 and put it in its trailer. Two of the guys drove it back to Sydney in the evening. We derigged the DG303 and the Astir and left them in their trailers for departure Monday morning.
