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Sunday, February 05, 2012

Frostbite Fun

 Daisy rigs under a classic sky

 Kaz gets things moving on her first flight on a hangy off St Agnes

 Richard H takes off as a que forms

 Andy R does a classic one

 Daisy joins Tim and Kaz in the air

Michel first off on a Paraglider as the wind eases a little

An early start saw us at St Agnes where things looked peachy for the KHPA Frostbite comp'.  A quick test of conditions confirmed they were then it was over to Pete C (meethead) for the brief.  As is the way we had spot landing followed by Open XC over the back.

Kaz was first away on her hanger and soon climbed out to over 600' on her first hangy flight off St Agnes. i joined her and we had a fun 25 minutes of thermal coaching before others began to launch and we went in for a rest.  It was not long before the sky filled with hangies and the spot landing fun began with some being more succesful than others!

By midday the wind eased back enough for the Paragliders to join in the fun but unfortunately as the wind eased so did the thermals!  Still everyone had a good day with it remaining well flyable for both disciplines right through the day. Tim j and myself played cat and mouse trying to eak out the elusive lift and between us must have racked up over 8 hours of flying!

Dave L tried out a Rush 3 and went home with it so I guess he liked it and we look forward to seeing him over the back on it soon.

Good to see a good turn out and well done on the visitors for braving the weather some coming from as far away as Cambridge shire!  Oh and the results.... Club class winner Graham A, Third O/all Andy R, 2nd Tim J and with a lucky spot Phippsy managed to take first prize.

Thanks to Coady for organizing and running the comp, be good to have him in it next year.

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