Balleka's video: Chasing Diamonds

This was my second flight of the day at Denbigh after having been rained out of the sky about 45minutes earlier. I was in the air for about 5 hours so have trimmed out most of the wave S-turning and got the edit down to an hour and a half. You wouldn't have predicted the awesome wave views at the beginning of the flight. Blog post : http://devonsomersetgc.blogspot.co.uk/2016/10/thursday-27th-october-denbigh-better.html Flight Trace : https://skylines.aero/flights/70387 Book marks 00:01 preflight banter 00:49 hooking on 02:05 launch 02:51 oh more rain 03:05 arrive on the ridge 04:28 rain out west 04:42 JB checks the weather situation 05:10 230 reports on the southern end of the ridge 05:38 wind check 05:55 wondering about wave interference 06:10 a little bit of ridge hooning 07:48 behind 230 08:04 cloudbase 08:54 only if you are desperate 09:06 nearly IMC 13:19 through to clearer air and up up up 14:34 cloud skimming 14:55 time for sunnies 15:15 Understanding O2 equipment ??? 16:18 Mountain high beeping (not detecting breathing) 17:01 Colwyn Bay visible in the distance 18:35 trying to figure out the wave 20:00 over St Asaph 20:50 not working 22:12 so close and yet so far 22:48 heading back for the ridge 23:31 back on the tusk 23:55 routing ideas 24:44 climbing in a closing hole 24:55 H5 about to join in the fun 25:47 Flarm alarm and back on the ridge again 26:35 rain rain go away 26:46 glider has just crashed on the ridge 27:17 pilot reports he is OK 27:40 glider on the hill 29:46 reminiscing about the dangers of flying behind the tusk 30:16 SF27a H5 goes past 30:41 turbulence 31:04 following 230 and into the wave proper 31:28 beautiful view of the Vale of Clwyd 32:06 easy on the torture 34:26 really getting going 35:04 back in the sun 36:09 alongside the whispies 38:18 3000' 3kts 39:02 shooting the gaps in the clouds 40:49 scraping over the tops 42:00 worth the drive up 42:19 above the clouds 43:00 Airspace warning 864-13 43:32 awesome view 44:12 6000' 5kts look ma no hands 45:21 wave shapes in the clouds 47:09 donning the oxygen 48:22 lets push west to the next bar 48:45 routing plans 50:25 arriving at the next bar 50:55 routing plans 51:45 into next patch of lift over 7.9/8ths overcast 52:25 8000' feet 52:38 10000 feet 52:54 14000 feet 53:40 heading north to Conway 54:34 talking to RAF Valley Radar 55:22 12kts of sink 56:12 alongside a spaceship 56:25 Conway valley 56:57 me and my shadow 57:55 cloud skimming 58:43 11000' 4km from the north coast of Wales 59:38 dipping my trace in the water 01:00:39 Colwyn Bay and Conway river Mouth 01:00:59 Menai Straits 01:01:35 epic lenticular 01:03:35 skimming the untrodden shores 01:06:02 trying to leave a wake trail 01:06:42 it's faint but it's there! 01:07:07 gunning the edge of the lenticular 01:08:35 signing off with RAF Valley Radar 01:09:09 230 a whisker away from his diamond height badge 01:10:50 climbing again 01:12:25 230 on track for his diamond 01:13:11 16500' awesome views of mid system wave bars 01:13:40 joined by 230 for some footage gathering 01:13:52 running out of daylight 01:15:00 alongside 230 01:17:18 oh look some clouds to play in 01:18:40 YEEEEEHA! 01:21:48 alien cloud scape 01:27:00 joining overhead airfield 01:28:27 1st bounce 01:28:31 2nd bounce 01:28:33 landing :-) 01:29:00 end of ground run.