Two years ago Mark Piggot bought one of my demo's Aspen 2's - Today I heard that he has completed the first official 100k flight in Ireland.Mark launched from a hill called The Playbanks near Sligo and landed near Eglington in Derry for a distance of 106.8k last Sunday. This beats the previous official 65k made last year by a long way. Enda Murphy completed a 140k flight a couple of years ago but unfortunately clipped Dublin airspace and so the flight was not officially recognised.
It appears there may well be a lot of very frustrated pilots in Ireland at the moment! As all those at the Celtic Cup never got to fly despite a very good forecast and they were on what should have been a better site. He was the only one of the group in Fermanagh that managed to catch the last lull of the day to launch – so his was the only flight that day.
Well done that man!
Mark's tracklog can be viewed on the xc league page of the UHPC website http://www.uhpc.co.uk
