Sofa King Good

Awesome cloud flying yesterday in light south flow. A whole van load of Kiwi's and some Melbournites headed up to Mystic, but it was over the back. So we went to the Pines and launched about 3pm.

It was on, so I launched right away with the intention of flying back to Bright, lucky for me Brian Webb had the same idea. It's always more fun having someone to fly with, of course it wasn't long before he was ahead of me but that has upsides as well, as he is a great thermal marker.

We actually didn't need to thermal much because the big clouds were providing such good lift lines, after leaving the hill we only used 5 climbs to get back to Bright (45k). There was a strong south in the valley bottoms and the final glide calc doesn't tell you about that, so we didn't quite make the L-ZED.

The others tried flying out on the flats, not sure how that went. Today the sky is overcast, not much lift out there.

Cheers