Brett tells the tales of Brazilian cross country flying
Brett wraps it up in northeastern Brazil. http://flyingthevoid.blogspot.com/2011/10/x-sertao.html
I felt relaxed, despite the low base and drifting over large areas
of unlandable terrain. There was only one tense situation when I could not quite
clear the far side of the biggest plateau at 110 km. I setup to land and was
searching for a wire that had to be somewhere, harness unzipped, when I hit
something that felt good enough to commit to, over 2 km of forest at the edge of
the plateau. But the thing disappeared when I had lost my field so I dove with
the wind, over the plateau edge, but it lead me into a long valley, filled with
trees. I stretched myself across the valley, to ride the ridge at the far
windward side, enough to fall over to the other side. A downwind lee side shaded dive for a few minutes into uninhabited bush land
later and I was circling back to base. The wind had weakened further to only 15
km/h cross tail. Base was now at 1800 m AGL.
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