Expecting the unexpected

Looking like a nice afternoon after all ;)

The plan was to head to Perran as the showers cleared for some tethering on the hangy, guess what we arrived at 14.15 just as the showers cleared and the wind veered, perfect!  Whilst we waited for Barney a (N.Devon) to arrive to start his Hang Gliding EPC, converting over from Paragliding, I snuck in a quick flight on the ASKA in breezy enough conditions.

Barney soon found us and we wasted no time in rigging the Hangy and doing the basic introductions.  Withj classic tethering conditions we cracked on and after a demo' flight by Kaz barney was soon harnessed up and hooked in.  His first few hops were classic Paraglider pilot ones with him over reacting as he held the turns to long.

The trickiest part of the day !

however it did not take him long to suss it and pretty soon I stopped talking (yes really honestly) and the glider did what barney wanted, well most of the time.  Each flight got better and by the end of play he was doing base bar conversion and "soaring" nicely with all the tethers nice and slack.  Once again our timing was pot on as by the time we derigged the wind began to ease back to on the light side for tethered soaring.

Barney gets the hang of it

back on the ground for a quick de brief before going up again

Not wishing to miss out on the fun that Wyn D and Glen F were having I nipped back up on the ASKA and had a ball feeling very at home on it and even feeling relaxed! Whilst I then had a go on Wyns Zion Kaz took the ASKA as the wind eased back even further making soaring a bit trickier resulting finally in a beach landing as the sun set.

A useful and fun afternoon on what was forecast to be a duff day, bonus

Quote of the day "how Wyn d, windy enough"