Lee
Well-Known Member
Sunday was a very hard day.
Flew my glider at a new location. Unfortunately, my spotter (wife
) lost sight of the glider.
I decided to come back and land, but got behind a rocky out crop, and lost video signal, followed quickly by radio.
After a few expletives, and running around like a headless chicken we got in the car and went to have a look for it.
Not knowing where, I just drove in the direction I guessed it was going.
I got no RSSI signal, so we were either going the wrong way, or the battery had unplugged.
We were just about to give up, when a couple of guys asked if we were looking for a plane.
Passing us a pair of binoculars, we spotted it half way down a hill in a eucalyptus forest.
It was shear luck that these two guys in the middle of nowhere, saw it go down.
Unfortunately, it was at the top of a 30ft tree
Well, after more than two hours of frustration, and throwing stones, and sticks at it, I took the bit between my teeth and climbed the tree coconut style
With no branches for the first 15ft, I was knackered by the time I got up there.
Got the plane down, but canopy, Mobius dock, and Mobius were not to be seen
Another 30mins searching, in thorny thick bush, and we found it.
OMG!!!! the Mobius wasn't in the dock!!!!
Could it get any worse.
But my beautiful wife with her beady eye spotted it in a bush covered with leaves
So apart from one slightly damaged wing, we recovered everything.
And most important, the camera, and the footage.
Check it out.
YouTube
Flew my glider at a new location. Unfortunately, my spotter (wife
) lost sight of the glider.I decided to come back and land, but got behind a rocky out crop, and lost video signal, followed quickly by radio.
After a few expletives, and running around like a headless chicken
we got in the car and went to have a look for it.Not knowing where, I just drove in the direction I guessed it was going.
I got no RSSI signal, so we were either going the wrong way, or the battery had unplugged.
We were just about to give up, when a couple of guys asked if we were looking for a plane.
Passing us a pair of binoculars, we spotted it half way down a hill in a eucalyptus forest.
It was shear luck that these two guys in the middle of nowhere, saw it go down.
Unfortunately, it was at the top of a 30ft tree
Well, after more than two hours of frustration, and throwing stones, and sticks at it, I took the bit between my teeth and climbed the tree coconut style
With no branches for the first 15ft, I was knackered by the time I got up there.
Got the plane down, but canopy, Mobius dock, and Mobius were not to be seen
Another 30mins searching, in thorny thick bush, and we found it.
OMG!!!! the Mobius wasn't in the dock!!!!
Could it get any worse.
But my beautiful wife with her beady eye spotted it in a bush covered with leaves
So apart from one slightly damaged wing, we recovered everything.
And most important, the camera, and the footage.
Check it out.
YouTube
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