Early morning practice

I decided to head out to the flying field early this morning before it became too hot and uncomfortable. Since the wind prediction was for just about still conditions I thought it would also be ideal to play with the thermal-ling camber setting on my Osprey.

I have not really used camber on the Osprey up till now since I mostly flew it in windy conditions and setting it up correctly is not easy with wind, turbulence and lift around.

Conditions turned out as predicted, for a change!

Playing around with camber on the Osprey proved that you need very little to be effective. Using a FRSky vario and telemetry I found that my best sink rate was with about 3mm of camber as measured at the flap closest to the fuselage. The vario is really a great tool to setup and get to know your plane.

A bit later I noticed some light lift, it was totally overcast but the temperature was rising, rather than playing around with camber and practicing landings I decided to see how long I could work the extremely light lift, always good practice for those early morning and late afternoon rounds!

It turned out to be hard work but also lots of fun! Slow gentle turns carefully trying to make the most of the very light lift was fun, the Osprey is really great under these conditions.

You can see the Altis log of the flight below, click on it to see a larger version.

I never gained much height above launch point but I managed to make more than a normal max.

I eventually ended the flight when a friend arrived at the field, it was fun!

The Osprey is really great in light lift!

The plan is to do the same over the next few weeks with the Supra and Xplorer to setup the most efficient camber for minimum sink conditions and thermal-ling.