Waving goodbye ? .........

After a cracking day off out on the boat watching Clipper racing and Red Arrows flying we had a chilled day and with a couple of Tandems booked in headed out to Chapel to check the weather and see what was going on.  Not a lot as it turned out with a few Para's laid out and little breeze we opted to head home and do something more useful.

Falmouth bay ;) 

A few hours later and joined by Martin J (Plymouth) who had dropped in to see us we headed back to the hill as the breeze filled.  Sure enough pilots were flying but conditions were up and down and not good enough to get the Tandems down.  Greeted by the sight of a  low airtime pilot taking off was a little concerning as the available beach was limited to say the least giving them no plan B.  Things worked out OK (just) but it could well have been a different story and hopefully lessons were learnt by  those concerned .......?

something nearly as exciting

something for Kaz (that took a lot of organising!)

Waiting for things to improve and my blood pressure to reduce a little dampness helped to cool things down.  With gulls soaring high off to the right a launch into the light breeze found light lift a I cruised along to the right.  lift increased all the way until it was super smooth and taking me higher and higher.  the gulls were still climbing well out to sea and looking at the clouds the presence of wave lift was plain.  Others joined in the fun before the wave moved off the ridge and we all descended seeing some scratching whilst the others popped in back on top.

The rest of the afternoon continued in the same manor and during one of the sinker bits one of the more experienced pilots decided to try and get to Porthtowan. Disappearing around a small outcrop he vanished below the top not to re-appear. a bit of frantic radio work and running around confirmed they had landed on what beach was left. Unable to walk back along the beach as the tide had cut off that exit a bit of cliff/gully scrambling finally saw them back in the land of the living just in time to see others specking out nicely as the wave returned.

So an interesting one in more ways than one.

Quote of the day "I wish I listened to Adie"  normally you can't help listening to him !