Arosa

Probably the last flight of this year's winter season in Arosa. I arrived early on the mountain with the intention to just make an extended sledder trying out a few things I had read the day before in the freshly released LeelooX manual. But with very little wind on the NE slope I had to try 3 times before finally managing a decent launch (also in almost nil wind) ; -) Many thanks to Hampa and Joel for helping me relaunching!

Unfortunately by the time I finally made it off the mountain, the originally blue sky had started to be (temporarily) covered by cirrus clouds, which partially blocked the thermals.

one-sided collapse - but the wing almost doesn't turn away...

big ears on the rh side - unspectacular

In both manoeuvers the wing showed very little tendency to turn towards the closed side and it's even  possible to steer/ turn away from the collapse. But in either manoeuvre there is room for improvements, ie to make the ears / collapse bigger... 

 The flight has ended with a good landing on the golf course/ nordic track.

I went up to the Weisshorn again, but decided not to launch, as the wind on neither launch provided a clear head wind component.

Urs and PeterN getting ready for another flight - and the cirrus clouds had disappeared...

I'm slowly feeling more confident and comfortable with my wing and I'm looking forward to the iCamp supposed to start on 5th of April in Levico, where I hope to fine tune all these manoeuvers with Michael's help; especially: so far I have not managed to make (big) ears simultaneosly on both sides, as my lh hand doesn't reach high enough, but I'm hoping Michael will have an idea ;-)