Today we started by going higher up the mountain.  The first site we tried, the wind was blowing away from the site.  We tried the second site, and again the wind was blowing a totally different direction, away from the slope.

Back to Old Panteleimonas where I had a top to bottom flight.  I had lift over the village, did a couple of 360 turns trying to pick up the lift.

I then headed away from the hill, and tried a big ears exercise.  This was a disaster, the glider veered right when I pulled in the right ear, this corrected a little as I pulled in the left ear, after this the glider remained very unstable.  My left was a normal big ear, but the right was hardly tucked in at all.  The glider also stopped (para-chutal stall?), and I was dropping at 11 down.  On release the glider recovered with a dive forward.  I had lost a lot of height; the rest of the flight was uneventful. On analysis I think I must have pulled in the incorrect lines on the right hand side of the glider.

The Germans flew after me.  These are they as they come into land.

I had no chance for another flight because the wind was again in rotor with the air coming over from the top of the mountain again.

Tried again at 6.00 but no luck.

For supper I had stuffed tomatoes.

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Claudio watching a landing.