Thermic Tuesday

Phippsy does a demo' flight as flying gets going

The para's watch as Tiege heads to the top

Peter H does a super take off

Getting in there Peter h thermals under a classic sky

Mark gets off on his Paramotor at the end of the day as the sky mellows

Doing the paperwork John O decides to go for a full EPC

It was already an active sky when we hit the field with nice clouds everywhere and birds soaring away.  This gave challenging conditions throughout the morning with us picking our times and our students to suit.  Still everyone did well and progress was made.  Lunch time saw things get a bit breezier so we took the opportunity to pop in a couple of tandem flights With Gavin St Agnes and Happy birthday) and Heather W both having super flights giving stunning views along the coast and including a bit of thermalling to top them up.

Things began to mellow in the afternoon and we managed to get the less experienced on the line just before the wind began to move around influenced by some strange convergence cloud.  A couple of winch moves and finally we settled in a NW breeze to round off the day with some cracking towing for the last couple of hours.

Gary W (Dartmoor) who was on his second day of a two day Taster did well cracking release flights and moving into gentle turns and my suspicion is we will see him again sometime.... John O (Sidmouth) who was back to start his EPC following a Taster day a few weeks ago did well despite having to wait for good conditions and then made the most of them getting nicely into release flights.

Anna P had to wait as conditions played up but still managed a couple of flights and got her speed bar task underway but unfortunately missed the better conditions later on.  Miles T moved well into his CPC on the paraglider with weight shift and put in a bit of thermalling practice along the way.  Pete H did the same and added speed bar to his abilities and also getting stuck into some thermals!

On the hangy side Tiege S (Hereford) continued as Tiege does and consolidated his high flights before moving to the base bar and finally prone so not long to go now before CPC is sorted :)

 Mark down on holiday took the chance for a bit of encouragement on his Paramotor and had asuper flight as we packed up at the end of the day and jack s took the chance to sort out his speed bar settings.

Good to have Paul h back out on the winch giving some super towing and thanks to Jack s and Dredgy for their help in the filed always good to have.

Oh yes and thanks to the RSJ team for the Big lift early in the morning ............