The Land Down Under

I flew to Australia last weekend, and if all goes as planned I will be here until the end of March. I'm going to spend a lot of time flying a site called Mystic, which is right above a little mountain town called Bright, located in the Victorian Alps.

I'm staying just outside of Bright, in a little valley called Wandiligong. (Toto, We aren't in Kansas anymore...) From where I am staying, we can recieve the windtalker on launch over the handheld radio, pretty convenient...

There are some really cool criters here - wombats, Kangaroos, dingo's, and all kinds of crazy birds - my favorite is the native Koocaburra - get two or three together and I swear it sounds like a tree full of screaming monkeys...

So it's Spring here and the flying is starting up, but there has been more wind than normal - which could be related to the drought that is gripping most of Australia.

We flew Mystic the day before yesterday, and it was amazingly strong for 11 am in the morning, we only flew an hour, mostly because it was enough "shish boom bang" for me - I haven't flown in 1000 ft/min up for many months.

There is a front passing through right now, but it will be gone tommorrow, so we should get some good flying conditions soon. Stay tuned my foot launching friends.

Brett