Pyrenees Crossing

Realized on August 6, 2009, the flight path and some points of interest appears here (screenshot, it does not seem to be possible to include the Google Maps widget in this wiki):

The take off took place on the "Plateau de Beille", 1800m:

The aircraft, a Multiplex Funjet, was equipped with a Pentax Optio S7 digital camera and it took (well, at least it was supposed to do it) one shot every 5 seconds.

Two pictures above the Laparan lake dam, and above the Fontargente lake just before the pass (a blue tent can be seen):

Just before the arrival, a guy on a path and his shadow:

And the arrival ground station on a pretty and convenient support:

Wind was from the south, estimated at 2m/s during the first circles after take off. An interesting pertubation occurred just before crossing the pass: at t=1045s, the aircraft climbed 50m higher than the setpoint (2350m); the throttle was then shut down (10%) and pitch was set down as well ... and the ground speed increased from 13m/s to 17m/s. The following plots display the event