הרכס באזור ה400 מטר והוא לרוב מתקרב ל700 , מה אתה רוצה ?
דרך אגב זה שיא העולם שכתבתי עליו לפני כמה שבועות ,
נדב , הנה תיאור הטיסה המקוצר שלו :
That sunday 3rd of November was an extraordinary day with high cloud base at 900m, slow at the beginning but with increasing SW breeze in the afternoon and good ridge lift then with 40km/h average speed. Already at 3pm I could make the turnpoint after 175km in 4 hrs – half record distance. The way back was a hell of a race with 20km/h SW winds flying 60km/h average speed! At 5:45pm I could reach my highest altitude of the day over 1.000msl just before the ridge was getting low to 400m. But I was also gliding into the shade of fog at higher level that drifted in from the pacific ocean and its cold Humboldt stream. Condition died and the fight started just to stay airborn to finish the last 20 km! Now my fast run paid off being kinda early back for a
final. Clock was showing 6pm, just 20′ after my highest altitude – conditions do change very quick here!
Scratching the hills 10m agl, 350msl that is, in overcast sky the warm sand still offered catabatic lift 0.5-1.0m/s but just to the top of the ridge: first 500, then 600, then 700msl at 7pm! For the last 10km I had two options: just making the start cylinder or landing at the golf court as the very last landing option before Iquique city. Going around the very last corner my final glide was showing -350m to arrive take off at 550m. So these last 200m would have been left to find a place to land. I still dont know how my decision would have looked like but on my way I hit the very last thermal with 1m/s consistant climb till cloud base at 800m for the last 6km – that was it!
Easily my RS 3.5 was flying over take off again with a joyfull 15km final glide over the beach of Iquique city where Werner was already smilingly waiting. At 7:20pm I flaired my wing at Brava beach after 8hrs40mins and 365km – touch down!
