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Short note on Swiss flying adventures

Monday, August 12th, 2019 at 3:32 pm Written by: Julian

After many days at Interlaken, generally flying down from various takeoffs and ramps, I got the opportunity and nerve to finally fly at Fiesch, where I got to see over the glaciers.

Flight 1 was easy; up and across the ridge into the Goms valley, thus saving me from the landing field at the bottom of takeoff. At the end of the flight I was caught in the convergence in the middle of the valley that took me back to 2800m. The only way down was to go to the edge of the valley and circle down.

Flight 2 was harder as I had to get really high first and then there was no lift for miles along the side of the valley until I was saved by a very slow climb on a particular ground collapse. There were some moments of zero-G on that flight. No matter how high I got, there were still always rocks above me.