Ariane Goes Pair-flying

We were advised at briefing that the day would not start until the temperature reach around 31 Celsius. Neither John nor I were really in a hurry to get going and after saying goodbye to Andy (going home today) we finally got ready.

The start was relatively easy with a climb north of Hongrie to 1800 metres and then I made my way to Malaup and met up with John. We then decided to fly together to the north past Colombis, on to Les Parias, then the vallee of Orcierres Merlette and finally we went to play into the different ridges in the Valgaudemar.

Meet Zebedee, P2 in the LS6

122 at the Valguademar

I had never been there before and felt slightly intimidated as cloud base was just a couple of hundred feet above the ridges. Anyway, after an hour or so it all became a little too much for me (I am only a girlie...) and left John, to fly back south past Gap and then onto the edge of the Vercors and decided to try and exploit the weak wave around Sisteron. I stayed a good hour at around 10.000 feet until the call of an aperitif made me open my airbrakes.

Another good flight and a new part of the Alps discovered. Click here for a map and the logger file.

Club President Christophe presents the prizes