Just when I need a good flying day in order to fly well and gain some more points, the weather is poor and the day is scrubbed.
During my last flight, besides not doing so well, I had some gremlins in the LX7007F in that it came up several times with a ‘GPS Bad’ screen, meaning that I lose the navigation and glide information on the screen. In the UK this would be very inconvenient, here in Sweden in the middle of a World Competition it is extremely important that this instrument works because the turning points are miniscule points in the middle of totally forested areas and virtually impossible to pick out purely by eye. On top of that, the turning point area is only 500m, and can easily be missed without the necessary instruments to ensure that you have actually been through the designated area.
So this morning, Steve spent quite a bit of time considering what could possibly be causing this and he also called the Distributor in the UK. After a couple of hours of work, he had moved the FLARM wires as far away as possible from the LX unit itself and positioned the aerial for the FLARM as far forward in the cockpit as it would allow. The only way to properly test the outcome will be by flying the glider again.
We had been invited to dinner with Gill Spreckley and Helen Hingley this evening after a Baroque concert that we all wanted to attend in the local church, so we decided to go into Arboga to buy a bottle of wine. We soon discovered that none of the supermarkets sold any wine at all. After a trudge through the town we could not find any wine/beer shops and ended going back into the supermarket and bought a bottle of cider…hopefully that should go with a curry.
The concert in the local church was excellent. There were four young musicians playing the harpsichord, cello, lute and treble recorder. It lasted just over an hour and the encore was justly deserved. Following the concert, all the attendees gathered outside the church and sang something with several verses; we’ve yet to work it out what it was, as we are not sure whether it was something religious or perhaps the National Anthem…I’ll try and find out today.
We had a very cosy dinner at Gill and Helen’s ‘cabin’. Most Swedish houses have a cabin in the back garden – it just seems to be the thing to do. The cabin had everything you needed from a small kitchen to a shower and a tiny bedroom on a sort of mezzanine floor in the roof space. Dinner was perfect and afterwards I played my guitar (played for my supper I suppose) rather badly I thought, but Gill and Helen seemed to enjoy it. I definitely need to do more practise…
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