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Post by Vanders on Mar 8, 2008 0:29:32 GMT 10
May try & make a day trip of it on Sat.
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Post by windsock on Mar 8, 2008 7:14:20 GMT 10
Would love to but it's getting too close to my wifes due date. Hope you have a good weekend. I would recommend that you checkout Cabarita beach (the headland), it's awesome when the conditions are right. However I've only flown there with a powered plane, it takes a bit of guts to throw it off the edge. Check out the following link for pictures: www.windsock.net.au/photos_html/photos16.htmlWith these photos I'm only half way up the top. I selected this area as it was easier to land with the extra speed of the powered Komet. |
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Post by nige on Mar 8, 2008 19:58:43 GMT 10
Hi Felix,
I am new to this forum and to Slope soaring and I live near Ballina. I have a wing and a PC9 and will try to get up to fly with you.
If it is really light and easterly Lennox head is allways a possibility as it has 80m of near vertical face.
See ya
Nigel.
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Post by felix on Mar 9, 2008 20:13:07 GMT 10
hey nige no worries hope you make it mate.....80m cliff?  ! gotta show me that one ;D now the race is on to find the time to redo the monokote covering on my bee i put on today-after it's first hard arrival,as allans wife wendy put it, looks like a yellow garbage bag and flew like one too  .also bringing along a fling (needs to be fixed after allan landed on it! haha) and a demotored electra. now all we need is cyclonic winds,a bootload of bourbon and a few more flyers. 0410611552 is my mobi if anyone is keen to come and needs details. |
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Post by nige on Mar 10, 2008 7:02:02 GMT 10
That sounds great I will get some photos of this cliff for you.
I have a fling as well, I have had it for 2 months and have not flown it cause the shop couldn't get the battery.
I will see if some of the guys down here want to come up as well.
Nigel
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Post by felix on Mar 10, 2008 7:42:23 GMT 10
i can get the battery from a hobby store up here and bring it down if you like? they were round the $30 mark from memory.
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Post by nige on Mar 10, 2008 21:03:57 GMT 10
Thanks for the offer with the battery but I have to wait and see if the shop gets the battery as it is on order. Here is that cliff felix, might not be 80 but it is big. One of the rocks in the water in the foreground is two stories high.   |
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Post by felix on Mar 10, 2008 21:25:57 GMT 10
wow mate now that's a slope!! definately have to visit that after seein that pic ;D
too easy on the battery mate,can even borrow mine if it's not there and do some sand dune and wave soaring if you need to.
how hard is that slope to get to btw the way? my car is far from being setup for offroad lol.
so anyone else gunna make the trip?
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Post by ezza on Mar 10, 2008 22:31:41 GMT 10
Hi Felix,
The slope in the photos is easy to get to with a main road running right past. It is however an easy 45-1hrs drive south from Hastings Point.
The lift is spectacular though. Even that smaller cliff in the foreground can be fun if the wind has a bit of south in it. Works great with northerlies but you may have to share it with hang gliders in those conditions. Really fun for flat ds right behind the vertical section. It is earie launching off that section, as you can't feel any wind. The wind is travelling straight up and unless you are hanging over the cliffedge, you can't feel it. Even with 5 knots the lift is plenty strong for a fly.
Might not be able to make it to Hastings but let me know if you are down around Byron/Lennox/Ballina and I'll try to get out, might be able to reccomend a few spots depending on the weather.
Eric
P.S. Nice shots Nige!
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Post by nige on Mar 13, 2008 17:47:25 GMT 10
Hi Felix, still going?
Forcast looks ok light onshore breeze, if it is really light I have a great spot.
Nigel
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! gotta show me that one ;D
.also bringing along a fling (needs to be fixed after allan landed on it! haha) and a demotored electra.
