From: "Jaco Wolmarans" <jaco@wordsource.co.za>
To: <capeflight@smartgroups.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 11, 2004 7:20 AM
Subject: [capeflight] The road to hell Part II
 

> This weekend at Dasklip, Phil Bristow was so kind as to come pick
> me up in his little Challenger twoseater and off we went, in the late
> afternoon, to go photograph the trigger points on the road to
> Bumpy, away from the ridge.
>
> We flew north first, shooting wide establishing shots of the
> locations and the mountains behind as a reference, then on the
> way back, I shot straight down onto the trigger points.
>
> Some of those trigger points I had only discovered that same
> morning, flying to Bumpy along my favourite route. Even at 6pm,
> every time we flew over a trigger point, the aircraft went into a
> climb!
>
> One of these points, which I will mark in red (-: even gave me one
> of my lowest saves ever - I guestimated it between 20 and 30m
> AGL. And that was with a hangover!
>
> I now have some very clear shots detailing the entire route, which I
> hope to show at the next club meeting. If you want to induce a large
> margin of safety in your flying Dasklip, then come watch.
>
> On Saturday, even with a ceiling of under a 1000m AGL, which is
> not healthy for flatlands flying, I managed the trip to Bumpy in some
> of the most relaxed flying I have done here, at 11am in the
> morning, which is way too early to test the flatlands. This is while
> Wendy got so shaken up on the ridge she nearly puked in her
> helmet and had to fly out at Bumpy.
>
> I've attached a sample shot so long.
>