Well the wind finally eased up here today so I got anther chance to fly the reichard champion.
Got to the field and was greeted with blue skys and light and variable winds. First flight was ok but wasn't much usable lift around, just some light bubbles but not enough to climb away. But it was still quite early. Waited an hour or so and a few small puffy clouds started to appear in the sky. Put the glider up again and found some good lift which got me a 35min flight on 2 30sec climbs and a max altitude reading of 1239ft. I was pretty happy with that.
The conditions just keep getting better and I noticed there where a few birds up high and some dust devils whipping across the field. Time to go up again. Only took a few minutes to find some strong lift that just keeped on going up. Had to bail out of it as I was starting to have trouble seeing the model. Only thing that keeped it visible was the flock of hawks following my wing tip.
So I went in search of some more lift at various places around the field, which I think is good for improving thermaling and air reading skills. Managed to find a few thermals but none as strong as the first one, and I landed at the 25min mark. While it was not my longest flight I did manage to achieve a PB in altitude at 1479ft. Time to put some bright colours on the underside of the wings so I can still see it at extreeme heights.
Just finding thermal flying so addictive at the moment as each flight is different.