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A victim of wet horrible weather with a very low cloudbase, Belgium's F16A gave us a taxi along the runway which at least allowed us to see the airframe and demonstrate photographically just how dreadful the conditions had got!
At first this proved elusive and we were scratching above the trees, but after a while Irwyn found something more consistent, which finally developed into a nice strong thermal which had the vario singing merrily all the way back up to cloudbase (our max. vario +10m/s!). Once again we got chilled under a dark cloud, which started throwing little ice crystals at us, pinging off our helmets and stinging our faces. As we entered the cloud Irwyn pushed forward towards its front edge, keeping the sun in sight and heading west towards Annecy and our next target of Semnoz – a long glide away. (This pic: Looking south over Mt. Veyrier, 1291m. and Lake Annecy as we climbed back up to base)