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date take off landing time (h:m) max alt.(m) take-off alt. landing alt. max lift max sink remarks
1 25/12/2000 dicky danda,pokhara,nepal 1600 1400 1000
26/12/2000 dicky danda,pokhara,nepal 1:34 1650 1400 1000
27-12-2000 dicky danda,pokhara,nepal 1:40 1694 1400 1000
28-12-2000 dicky danda,pokhara,nepal 1:42 1664 1400 1000
29-12-2000 dicky danda,pokhara,nepal 1:39 1653 1400 1000
30-12-2000 dicky danda,pokhara,nepal 0:34 1657 1400 1000
2/1/01 sarangkot,pokhara,nepal 1:11 2142 1500 800
3/1/01 dicky danda,pokhara,nepal 0:43 1734 1400 1000
3/1/01 dicky danda,pokhara,nepal 0:56 1678 1400 1000
5/1/01 dicky danda,pokhara,nepal 0:49 1700 1400 1000
26/1/01 naukuchiyatal,kumaon 0:04 1515 1500 1300
26/1/01 naukuchiyatal,kumaon 0:04 1500 1500 1300
27/01/2001 naukuchiyatal,kumaon 0:05 1580 1500 1300
3/2/01 billing,kangra bir 1:20 2987 2400 1480
4/2/01 billing,kangra uthrala 1:30 3511 2400 1400
10/2/01 billing,kangra bir 1:45 2730 2400 1400
11/2/01 billing,kangra uthrala 1:10 2946 2400 1400
17/2/2001 kamsheth easterly early morn.starts turning around 12:00. Take off at2:00pm in strong westerly. shailar 1:57 1403 650 600 4 3.5 east wind in the morning. Turns by noon.thermic and strong wind until 3:30-4.after that smooth.can fly till sunset,about7:00pm.
17/2/2001 kamsheth wind conditions lighter at 4:30. Also coming from NW by the time I take off. shailar 2:01 1285 650 600 3.5 2.8
18/02/2001 kamsheth same as previous day shailar 2:17 1625 650 600 4.5 4
18/02/2001 kamsheth same as previous day shailar 1:48 1116 650 600 2.2 3
3/3/01 kamsheth planned east take off above melissa's. we were late. Wind turned west by 12:00.finally took off from south west above melissa's. topto bottom. field near rao's house. 0:11 886 800 550 1 3
3/3/01 kamsheth shailar. shailar 1:36 1323 650 600 4.5 5.5
4/3/01 kamsheth 0:47 1314 650 600 4 3.5
4/3/01 kamsheth 0:50 1242 650 600 4 3
4/3/01 kamsheth 1:01 1143 650 600 2 7
5/3/01 kamsheth 1:42 1162 650 600 2.5 2
6/3/01 kamsheth W above melissa's.took off at 1:00. raikar farm 0:39 897 800 550 2 2.5
6/3/01 kamsheth shailar. shailar 2:23 1229 650 600 4 8 spirals-first time,so sink rate more than 8.
7/3/01 kamsheth W above melissa's, thermic so got height and flew over lake.took off at1:00 pm. West wind. raikar farm 2:12 1638 800 500 4.5 8
7/3/01 kamsheth shailar,first tandem shailar 0:46 786 650 550 1 2
8/3/01 kamsheth W above melissa'a.,took off at 5. raikar farm 1:07 1035 800 500 3 3
9/3/01 kamsheth W above melissa's. raikar farm 1:27 1260 800 500 3 3
9/3/01 kamsheth shailar, full moon flying. Took off at 6.landed at9:30 pm. shailar 3:30 1095 650 550 2 2
10/3/01 kamsheth W above melissa's. raikar farm 0:25 939 800 550 2.5 3
10/3/01 kamsheth shailar shailar 2:36 1421 650 550 5 8
11/3/01 kamsheth shailar shailar 0:54 1126 700 550 3 3.5
11/3/01 kamsheth shailar shailar 2:04 1753 650 550 4.5 8
12/3/01 kamsheth W above melissa's. raikar farm 1:13 1373 800 500 3.5 8
12/3/01 kamsheth shailar,tandem shailar 0:05 650 650 550 0 2
13/3/01 kamsheth W above melissa's village ahead of golden glades. 0:11 800 790 600 0.5 3 bummed out.didn't walk all the way to W. tried SW.
13/3/01 kamsheth W above melissa's,2nd walk up and 1st XC. Went toshailar, and then to talegaon talegaon 1:36 1485 800 500 5 4
13/3/01 kamsheth shailar,tandem shailar 1:30 1100 650 600 4 3
13/3/01 kamsheth shailar,tandem shailar 0:05 650 650 600 0 2
14/03/01 kamsheth shailar shailar 0:16 833 650 600 0 3
14/03/01 kamsheth shailar shailar 0:09 650 650 600 2 2 brake line tangle so did top to bottom.
14/03/01 kamsheth shailar,tandem shailar 0:20 750 650 600 1 2
14/03/01 kamsheth shailar,tandem shailar 0:05 650 650 600 2 4
15/03/01 kamsheth shailar shailar 1:33 1133 650 600 4 3 passenger with melissa.
15/03/01 kamsheth shailar shailar 0:14 796 650 600 1 2 tandem
15/03/01 kamsheth shailar shailar 0:43 1091 650 600 3 8
19/03/01 billing,kangra palampur(25km) 2:59 3929 2416 ? 4 5.5
21/3/01 billing,kangra bir 1:45 3564 2370 1400 7 8
22/3/01 billing,kangra bir 0:26 2537 2370 1400 4 4
23/3/01 billing,kangra bir 2:14 3506 2370 1400 6 8
24/3/01 billing,kangra top landing 1:39 3291 2414 2414 4 5
24/03/01 billing, kangra take off at 11:30. Not very strong so hang around for a bit till the cloudbase rises. Toplanding. Niku,mike and claudia also topland. Ten take off at 2:00pm and get straight into hose ythermal which is blasting up at 5-7m/s. am up at 3500, just below cloudbase in about 5 minutes. goto 3122 and get some mor height and the full speedbar down to the next ridge. and its going up beautifully as you cross the "sinky" valleys and approach the ridge. peep, peep, poop poop, peep peep peep, poop poop poop, peep peep peep peep peeeeeeeeeeee.....vario's making music. so over every ridge i make 3500-3800 and the full speed bar down to the next one. landing at police gorund,dharamshala. 45km crosscountry. 2:51 3725 2414 ? 7 8
25/03/01 billing,kangra bir 1:11 3586 2414 1400 6 8
26/3/2001 billing,kangra took off at about 12 looked like cross country weather. Did 3 ridges and came back. Really turbulent and strong. Later when we looked at pepe's vario, we found that he had recorded max lift of 16.6m/s. wow! bir 1:14 3538 2420 1400 5 8
27/3/2001 billing,kangra left for the take off from bir at 9:30.but because the road was being "widened", we had to walk the last 5km from below thermal devta to the take off. Strong (20-30kmph) westerly winds and strong inversion. No birds. Some cirrus in the morning, and then developing cumuli behind 3122 in the high mountains. All this is very unsusal so we wait. by 2:30, i finally get impatient and take off. little penetartion and the angle of the thermals is high, so for the first time in billing, there is the concept of being blown back. is really difficult to stay in the thermal in strong wind as well. get upto 3500 in the house thermal over the devta and am almost at cloudbase. then spiral down. try and topland but after a few times of hanging 5m above take off, i give up and decide to fly. bir 1:43 3329 2420 1400 5 8
28/3/2001 billing,kangra cirrus at 7: a.m. over the whole sky. Some "wavy" clouds. Strong east wind. We decide to go up anyway. Really strong east wind, rain and thunderstorm at 2:00. Windometer maxes at 50kmph. If you stand at the edge of the take off, it looks like you'll fly without a paraglider.walk down!
29/3/2001 missing records: need to find .
30/3/2001
31/3/2001
1/4/01
2/4/01 billing, kangra landed at dharamsala. First spent 20 minutes over mcleodganj/triund looking for a sign from debu/andy. Found out later that they landed at triund and took off agai and went back to bir!. 3:25
3/4/01 billing, kangra 0:45
5/4/01 billing, kangra mandi 2:05 900 mandi cvross country. Flew south with the wind behind me. Unlike dharamshala, where you need to cross many valleys, this is somewhat easier as there's a ridge that goes along almmost all the way to mandi. Careful in mandi though. Narrow valley, only one good landing place, the main ground opposite the bus stand. lots of power lines and towers on the last few ridges so smart to approach with some height. which i didn't do of course, and then had to scratch for 20 minutes on the last ridge to get enough to clear the power lines, river etc.
6/4/01 billing, kangra tandem with jana gana. bir 0:45 crash landing!! Came in too high and then got myself into an irrevocable situation. 10ft from the ground, and at the end of the landing field. 10 ft from he trees. Stalled the glider .landed with a huge thud. and wrist cracked.aaaaagh! Passsenger okay though. he landed on me!
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