It was off to the field where the forecast was for a light SW breeze. By the time we arrived it was already a bit stronger than forecast so we held the winching and played ground handling. Ian and Ed B (Newton Abbott) were along to start their EPC courses and with Ian having already been on a Taster Day with us and Ed having watched things moved on pretty quickly. Despite the "challenging" conditions with plenty of thermal around they both did really well and were soon moving the canopies around the field in reverse looking good.
Lunchtime saw me test conditions on the Paraglider as a Tandem customer had arrived however one flight was enough to confirm it was at the top end and rough as I have known it on the tow line so we knocked Tandems on the head.
Ian and Ed did some theory before getting out there again and putting in some more ground work now flicking from reverse to forward and back again. Their progress was remarkable and in conditions that many more experienced pilots would struggle with these guys were handling well. we rounded off the day with some good hand towing to get them into the air which was fun and they both took their EPC Exams and passing so setting them up nicely for their next day with us. Despite no flying they learned an awful lot which will form the basis of their flying careers, you can never do enough ground handling ......
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