I wanted to share with you this video of my mate Craig flying his DG800 self launching motor glider along the South Downs last Sunday morning. It follows the complete flight from Craig taking off under his power and first along to Eastbourne then back along to Butser and home to Parham. 175kms in 1 hour 42 mins which averages out at 103kph. Its well worth watching all the way through for you to understand the difficulties and tough decisions needed to be made when slope soaring along the South Downs in a full size glider.
You will see him hurtle past Ditchling Beacon but I think we had all just packed up and gone home at that point.
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