Proper big ears.

We went straight back up the chairlift and by this time the cloud base had risen to above the main launching site. There was still a nice head wind so take off was fine, I had adjusted my leg straps so getting into the seated position was much easier. I flew directly out from the mountain, tried to catch a bit of a thermal by doing a 360 but didn't gain any height. I then flew over to the landing field. There hadn't been much lift coming off the mountain but when I got over the flat land the air was quite buoyant. Nicky was on the radio on the ground guiding in a couple of new students that had arrived, so I tried to delay my descent my doing 2 slow wide circles over Sopot. It was really nice just to sit back and enjoy the view. My tasks were supposed to be big ears again and then asymmetric tucks but by the time Nicky had guided in the new students I had lost a fair bit of height, I only had enough height to perform some big ears which I managed to perform properly this time. You really notice the rate of descent change when the wing tips get tucked in, and it's much more sensitive when turning with weight shift. The wind direction had changed at the landing site to a north east direction so I had to make a different approach than usual. I lost height by doing a couple of 360s and then had a long approach run which landed me perfectly in the middle of the landing site. I was a harder landing as the field slopes slightly upwards from that direction, but with a good full flare I managed to run it off in a couple of steps. It was a really enjoyable flight, total flight time was 25 mins.

This is Nicky doing some big ears.