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Monday, July 15, 2013

It never poured but it "Rained"

A Big day for Kaz as with lovely weather and a day in the  tow field where not only were the normal things going on but Ken Raines the Chief BHPA Examiner was along to assess Kaz for her Instructor rating.

Despite Ken's reassurance just to ignore him and carry on as normal lives not like that. Kaz did a fine job with the students at briefing then it was off to the field.  Whilst I got going with Jim D and Alec R (Shropshire) on the hangs Kaz took the day one Paragliders Steve L (Ivybridge) and Julian S (Ivybridge) with ken not far behind.

The hangies behaved them selves for most of the day with Jim marching nicely through his CPC tasks and making hang gliding look easy until a lazy launch saw him step onto the Condor which did not take it kindly!  Alec on the other hand did very well and was soon flying nicely across the field to both his and his wife's surprise fortunately getting all his flights in before Jim made his unplanned arrival.....

Kaz's boys were also up to tricks with Julian clicking something in his ankle whilst holding the end of a rope before he even got his feet off the ground, still it put her management skills to the test and gave something more for Ken to asses.  Steve carried on happily and was soon off on his first towed flights and just loving it.  By the end of the day he was thoroughly hooked and looking forward to tomorrow.

Ken then did a fair bit of discussion with kaz on various scenarios and got her to use ma as a student for the higher tasks and finally was ready for a debrief..........  In fairness he made Kaz work for it but yes she did get her rating and we are pleased to have her as an Instructor in her own right.  as usual there is always more to learn and that applies to us all and not just Kaz.



So one of those days when you hope everything goes just right and in fact it turned out to be one of those days when it chose not to!

Quote of the day "thank goodness that's over with!"

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