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Monday, March 01, 2010

Staff Training

Mike R hooks up complete with yellow wellies, looked more like he was going yachting!
Winch man Kev T nears the and of his initial training, style Police next

Trying out the hanger on the "new" system

Works well down low

and also a little higher, nice cloud street

With a lovely tow day forecast and a shortage of students we took the opportunity to do some Staff training on the field. Despite a call for "Guinea Pigs" only one was forthcoming in the form of Mike Reed on his hanger who also wanted some top up tows before heading to the hill for his conversion.
Mike had a good morning putting 6 high flights all with good landings and looking like he had never been away. This gave new winch man Kev T someone to practice his "chest release" tows on as he had never towed this configuration before, thanks Mike.
Kaz P got plenty of practice on her instruction techniques on Paragliders with myself as the challenging student putting both her and Kev through their paces which they dealt with nicely.
Steve H then took over on the winch and we tried out a "new" technique on the Hanger for low level flights to hopefully reduce the need for side tether "men". It worked really well and after 8 tows we had it pretty much sorted.
A very useful day all round with the only down side being the lovely thermals that kept drifting by going to waste! Still needs must.

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