Jan and Jette, 10 years experience, Olla 20 years experience waiting it out.

Clouds already low, winds colder and picking up at take off, no sun.

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Last flights, in the middle a low airtimer, I don't know if he liked this.

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We flew at Palomaret, untill cloudsuck was too strong to be safe.

Even with big ears on it was lifty, spiral dives were the best thing to do. Scary how a low airtimer was told to pull in big ears, all of a sudden we saw the glider getting smaller and entering a stall. And this is not the first time I see this. Often the coloured outer stabilo lines are pulled instead of the outer A-lines which are also coloured, by low airtime pilots.

The colour on the stabilo lines have their importance. If you have a cravate you should try to pull just that coloured line to get it out. It is coloured so you can easily find it when all above gets loose and you don't have time to check which one is now the stabilo line.

Anyway, even top pilot Dudo who changed his brake-lines this week, was making a point about asking to get him that specific colour of brake-line. Because he didn't want to be confused if he needed to sort out a cravate. By this I like to suggest also, to be humble, ask advise, listen to more experienced pilots, never be stubborn and ignore advise. Because when the shit hits the fan, the shit hits the fan !

Down here unfortunately we do not have coaches, or club meetings, where pilots share their flights, their mistakes and accidents, their XC flights. Its a pity.
And this sometimes leads to situations where the pilot has never been in before, and doesn't know what to do. Resulting in sometimes a wrong decision, maneuver. Like today, to give a simple example, to go out flying with these clouds not having a compass on board for instance.

Lets fly safe and listen to each other, never pretend you know it all.