Lyn E takes her first steps off the hill with a good look out
Lyn looking happy after her second top landing
Pete and myself on the Tandem flying low
The tandem as the lift kicked inIt was light at Perranporth when we arrived so ideal for Lyn (Leicestershire) to get her first ground handling on the hill underway. She did really well picking up a few good tips on the way to make her life easier. Mike G had a close shave with the parking police but with some help from Kaz managed to get unclamped at no cost, thats a rarity!
By early afternoon the breeze started to fill in and all of a sudden it was flyable so after a quick demo Lyn was off up and away. She put in a super flight despite a break in communications and looked very confident and smooth as she settled in. 15 minutes later she made a perfect top landing to round off her first hill flight. A short break, debrief and radio change and she was off again making an even better job of it and looking ven more relaxed. Another top landing and huge smile said it all.
By early afternoon the breeze started to fill in and all of a sudden it was flyable so after a quick demo Lyn was off up and away. She put in a super flight despite a break in communications and looked very confident and smooth as she settled in. 15 minutes later she made a perfect top landing to round off her first hill flight. A short break, debrief and radio change and she was off again making an even better job of it and looking ven more relaxed. Another top landing and huge smile said it all.
Peter came along for a Tandem on the Paraglider on which we had a fun flight in varying lift, sometimes up sometimes down. Eventually the sink got the better of us so we opted for the beach. Pete who is doing seven marathons this year made light work of getting back up the dunes whilst I took rather longer!
Lynns next flight saw conditions much lighter and with less lift but she still did well dodging the heavy traffic until in experience and a lack of consideration by some saw her forced out to land on the beach which she did very tidily. By the time she arrived back on top everyone else had packed up and no sooner was thelast glider in the bag than the wind filled in again! Making the most of it she was off again for her fourth flight and with the sun setting popped her Mojo3 back in on to to end a super day.
Hopefully we will get to complete her conversion soon but she had a great time and "learnt a lot" in the process, well done.
Quote of the day "that extra 2" makes a huge difference".......................
Piccies will follow soon
Lynns next flight saw conditions much lighter and with less lift but she still did well dodging the heavy traffic until in experience and a lack of consideration by some saw her forced out to land on the beach which she did very tidily. By the time she arrived back on top everyone else had packed up and no sooner was thelast glider in the bag than the wind filled in again! Making the most of it she was off again for her fourth flight and with the sun setting popped her Mojo3 back in on to to end a super day.
Hopefully we will get to complete her conversion soon but she had a great time and "learnt a lot" in the process, well done.
Quote of the day "that extra 2" makes a huge difference".......................
Piccies will follow soon
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