I left Rochester on Friday at 2pm and drove through to Lexington Kentucky stopping about midnight. I finished the drive Saturday morning and arrived around noon. I signed in, set up camp and set up my glider to get a pre-meet flight. There was a very weak SW cross wind and the only gliders able to stay up were rigid wings and topless flex wings(and very few of them) so eventually I took my sledder like a man and dove off the ramp. Actually I had an excellent launch, kept the nose down and ran down the face of the ramp till I was air born. A quick 5 minute sledder and a decent landing and I had committed aviation at Hensons Gap.
Day one was canceled due to a strong south wind and day two was canceled due to rain. We have been spending our time at seminars with Mike Barber(the man who has flown a hang glider further than anyone in the world) and oh what a guy to boot, and Dennis Pagen( the guy who literally wrote the book(s) on hang gliding). The quote of the meet so far: Tom Lanning "after a day of driving and a sledder, a day of watching the wind blow in the wrong direction and a day of rain, it is getting about time to blow something up!!!"
Here are some pictures of the ramp at Henson's Gap, much more to come.
Flights: 1
Airtime: 5min
Fun factor: 10
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