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Originally Posted by casstony
Other memorable (not necessarily life threatening) incidents that come to mind are: flying under power lines, landing in the bull paddock, flying with wedgetails, being attacked and damaged by wedgetails, having a squadron of American jet fighters blast through a couple of hundred feet below me ......... you'd have to be bloody mad to fly hang gliders.
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Good on u mate, a fellow flyer. Some memorable ones for me . One was when low cloud came in, its base lowering till just above the hill, visibility falling till the ground was visible only through a small circle below me. I thought it a wise idia to head down to the park and land when I saw one of the other gliders dissapear into the gloom, knowing when he reached thge end of the ridge he'd be turning and coming back head on. I didnt want to find out what a mid-air was like.
Another one was watching a nasty rain squall slowly get closer, then see from the air the streamer at the take off suddenly swing 90 degrees when the gust front hit, I turned tail and headed for Dixon Park, where I launched from, by the time I got there the wind had swung 45 degrees, but I landed okay, 5 mins later wind was blowing over the back, a near 180 degree swing.
An astronomy related one was many years ago when there was a viewing site at "Black hill", NW of Newcastle. On my way there with my 22 year old 10 inch scope in the car I thought I saw some white objects above the road. I was past them in seconds, realizing it was the eyes of a pair of jet black cows standing on the road. had I hit them ........ too scary to think about.
Scott