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This season, the weather is nothing to write home about. We had ONE day of somewhat better conditions and Silvio and I decided to give it a go. Given the (even more difficult compared to last weeks flight) weather, we needed to deploy the engine several times to avoid landing early - which is a nice feature of the Arcus-M. The Third engine retraction turned into the 'retraction from hell'.
Instead of the 25 seconds to retract the engine after finishing the cooling down procedure, it took 130 seconds (while having this huge air-resistance out), and we lost almost 300 meters after turning off the engine. This resulted in being 200 meters below the Mattstock peak and we were not able to connect with the thermals and had to deploy the engine a fourth time...
To boot, Silvio on his first ever Arcus flight, got really sick given the engine gas fumes (pretty strong at the Arcus rear seat) and after we finally managed to climb using a weak thermal, we had to quit and land.
Glider: Arcus-M HB2500
CoPi: Silvio B. (aka DXhunter)
Camera: Insta460 One X2
editing SW: Insta360 Studio + Premiere Elements 2020
flight: www.onlinecont...