How to BLOW a 130km flight with one stupid mistake!

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It's Friday 12th August 2022 and it's a cracking forecast (albeit a blue day) from the Malvern Hills. The title is a bit of a spoiler, but sit down and don't do what I did next time you're on a cross country flight!
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PS. It's important to move on from these disappointments - two days later I flew my 10,000ft flight - see • Chasing Highs!
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@KilkennyLights Год назад

Hello Tim. Im back for inspiration. Happy new year to you and best of luck with your flights in 2023. Frank here from Kilkenny in Ireland. I would love an 80 km. Best of luck to everyone. Fly Safe and fly High

@TimPentreath Год назад

Thanks very much Frank, I’d love to fly in Ireland sometime…!

@soggybottom3463 Месяц назад

Great job, great fun, glorious scenery. Well done sir 👍👏👏

@TimPentreath Месяц назад

@@soggybottom3463 thanks! Glad you enjoyed it!

@Robbo1966 Год назад

Great flight, its amazing how you can go from in a climb to hitting the long death glide so quickly, I remember that vario audio well

@TimPentreath Год назад

Yeah, it’s a cruel game at times for sure!

@carlcolorado3549 Год назад

Thanks for sharing your awesome adventure! Can't win them all but I'd rather be there then at work. I'm working more on flatland this year. Good to watch and see that you're doing in the air. Helps me out some 😉👍🏻

@TimPentreath Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it Carl. Roll on the new season!

@gadgetgeorge Год назад

Haha, Glad it’s not just amateurs like me that suddenly realise they are doing 360s in sink ! I would still have been very happy with this flight though. Nice 👍

@TimPentreath Год назад

Haha yes, schoolboy error! I was convinced I’d find the lift again, but nope!

@NevilleStyke Год назад

One day in 1994, only two of we hangies were going XC from the Dyke. Trevor was fifty feet below me in a thermal and he bombed out after 12 miles, whereas I carried on for 80 miles, for the site record.

@TimPentreath Год назад

It’s amazing how seemingly small things can make such a big difference, but if they’re at critical points in the flight then yes, it happens for sure!

@FlyRusty Год назад

Tim as ever quality and educational.

@TimPentreath Год назад

You mean like me, you didn't know that turning in sink was a bad thing? 😏

@harveytheparaglidingchaser7039 Год назад

Great video. My hands were twitching and I was weight shifting watching it

@TimPentreath Год назад

Haha, glad you enjoyed it! Check out some of my other videos if you haven't already - I'm sure you'll enjoy them!

@scenicsteve Год назад

Interesting seeing an XC flight in the UK with almost pure blue skies and no grey bottomed CU clouds to help you identify thermals. Great video as always Tim.

@TimPentreath Год назад

Yes, sometimes you can spot little very short-lived Cu, or even "haze domes" I think they're called, to give you a clue, but in the absence of them just following the obvious ground sources tends to work best (where they're obvious!)

@rodragsdale1702 Год назад

It is always good to see that the sky gods can get stuffed just like the rest of us. Thanks for sharing Tim. That business of climbing out from low is fascinating. Just saw a video that Marlon Jonat posted somewhere getting a save at 6 metres off the deck. He had the advantage of a slight hill but even so it was great to watch. See you in July, if it pleases God!

@TimPentreath Год назад

Yeah, I had my fair share of low saves last year, but not this time! 🤞🏻for July!

@oliverclothier5677 Год назад

Was an interesting flight that I was low for so long think I normalised it. So was quite chilled on that low save . From there it got real tricky and me and Lawrence were on mince mode to get to the train station , can’t remember think we were one climb short but got a ride minutes after packing up and made the train back easy .

@TimPentreath Год назад

Yeah, you seemed to do a lot of bottom feeding but did well in the end 👏🏻

@Itsallgoodtogo Год назад

I know that feeling man I know that feeling. Had one of those amazing days last year where I bombed out like 20km after launch while my friends managed to get a 180km flight.

@TimPentreath Год назад

Yeah, gotta be able to take the rough with the smooth in this game - not that this was exactly rough 😉

@MaxMartini22 Год назад

Great video! I always wondered why you were so slow to turn the core, I imagined that it could be that your thermals over there are way bigger than ours or maybe it´s just your style. Obviously we can´t feel what´s really going on but listening to vario and taking into consideration its delay, seemed that you just missed the timing on that one. Anyways, blew 1 out of dozens of amazing ones. As always great work!

@TimPentreath Год назад

Unfortunately I don't have any footage from immediately before 8:29 so I can't remember the "bit of a climb" that I refer to. I suspect it was just a few blips and I made a mistake by trying to look for something that wasn't there...

@kenwilkinson7836 Год назад

Great video to watch Tim. (I havent had my hip op, so will hopefully be OK to fly very soon.)

@TimPentreath Год назад

Cheers Ken, 🤞🏻

@mohamedsaifi1026 Год назад

always nice picture thanks!

@TimPentreath Год назад

Glad you enjoyed it!

@cowhunterfilmsparagliding5179 Год назад

Another great and informative video, what are you using for the flight tracking graphics instead of Ayvri?

@TimPentreath Год назад

Thanks, it’s SportsTrackLive

@SuperAnatolli Год назад

Well, then it comes to stupid mistakes, I completely outperform you! I wouldn't get half off that distance, and probably had been bitten by the rabbits at the landing as well. You need to land much earlier to impress me in terms of mistakes! If I had done this flight it would have been a personal best!

@TimPentreath Год назад

Haha, you're right, it wasn't exactly the end of the world 😄