Bloody Brilliant Tim - raw, up close & personal (or should that be DOWN close & personal in view of the conditions!) gritty scratching & determination, slogging your guts out (literally) Welsh Brecon time after time to cover 47 exhausting km - & cracking on to the end.... Gutsy & inspirational reality of what the intrepid British Hike & Fly Paraglider faces more often than not.....thanks so much for sharing
Thanks for your comments Rodney, glad you enjoyed it! It certainly was a slog, but it pales into insignificance compared to what the Red Bull XAlps athletes are doing right now!
Brilliant footage Tim, I love to see you scratching around like that...just my kind of flying in close and tight in very light conditions. You can learn a lot from watching this video:)
Great to see your race. I’m looking forward to next year. I’m going to go for the most direct route and always go for the nearest peak or ridge to maximise the time under the wing after watching a few other vids.
Is your vario sound coming from your XCtracer ? if so, what are the shorts clicks after the vario stops climbing, similar to what is heard on the Skytrax ? is that just zero's ?
Yes, it’s from the XCTracer. I have a sound profile that tries to mimic my old Flymaster’s “growl” - it kicks in between -1 and 0 to indicate that you’re in rising air, just not strong enough to make me actually go up! ClimbToneOnThreshold=0.1 ClimbToneOffThreshold=0.1 SinkToneOnThreshold=-0.1 SinkToneOffThreshold=-0.1 tone=-10.00,200,200,100 tone=-2.00,293,200,100 tone=-1.99,293,700,82 tone=-1.00,320,651,29 tone=-0.99,320,350,10 tone=0.00,374,200,5 tone=0.01,432,500,10 tone=0.41,521,399,35 tone=1.00,617,335,50 tone=2.05,772,275,50 tone=3.74,996,228,50 tone=10.00,1830,95,50
