Fateful flight, 14/02/2008...

Flight at La Chapelle des Hermones. It's a beautiful day, the snow shines in the sun, the air is crisp...



My mother breaks her leg on the way down. I told her walking was not a safe way to go back to the car...

Technical data: Flight duration 0:15, Take-off altitude: 1550m, Maximum altitude reached: 1550m, Total climb during flight: 153m, Max rate of climb: +1.8m/s, Max descent rate: -3m/s, Landing altitude: 640m.

Winter flight, 13/02/2008...

Shortly after take off from Très-le-Mont...

Look at all that smog! The biggest contribution to that polution is from motor vehicles...

Technical data: Flight duration 0:13, Take-off altitude: 1330m, Maximum altitude reached: 1330m, Total climb during flight: 567m, Max rate of climb: +1.4m/s, Max descent rate: -4m/s, Landing altitude: 640m.

Vario entry, 10/02/2008...

In the morning, we go for a walk in the mountains. On the way home, the weather is so beautiful that I get Gisèle to drop me at Le Col du Feu and I walk up to Très-Le-Mont for a quick flight.

It's good to be in the air again...




Technical data: Flight duration 0:15, Take-off altitude: 1330m, Maximum altitude reached: 1330m, Total climb during flight: 80m, Max rate of climb: +1.2m/s, Max descent rate: -3.4m/s, Landing altitude: 640m.

Winter flight, 09/02/2008...

Technical data: Flight duration 0:13, Take-off altitude: 1330m, Maximum altitude reached: 1330m, Total climb during flight: 118m, Max rate of climb: +2m/s, Max descent rate: -5.4m/s, Landing altitude: 640m.

Friday's Fablous Flight, 08/02/2008...

The weather is wonderful. I leave home for a long walk that ends with a beautiful laminar flight in the still air. Pitty I have to go back down in the poluted soup that fills the valley.



Technical data: Flight duration 0:10, Take-off altitude: 1330m, Maximum altitude reached: 1330m, Total climb during flight: 48m, Max rate of climb: +1m/s, Max descent rate: -3.8m/s, Landing altitude: 640m.