Return of the Suspenders

Simon D looking pretty near perfect on his first taster day flight

Lois D takes the new Falcon 3 up, lovely hand position.

Nigel W Psyc's himself up to fly

Russel S moves into higher flights and releases

Happy faces at the end of the day :)

Another lovely day in the field saw us up and towing early as we only had one Taster day on which Kaz took control of leaving Tim on the winch and myself to play with the others.

Talking the opportunity to test fly our new Wills Wing Falcon 195 school glider I was first up and enjoyed a couple of lovely flights confirming that our new girl is fit for the job and indeed a delight to fly, I'm looking forward to a bit of hill soaring and thermalling on her soon.

Then it was off to work with Nigel W (St Just) first up on the Condor on his second day of hang Gliding. He did a good enough job for me to take the king post tether off and was closely followed by Lois D (Bristol) who was also on his second day have swapped over from Paragliding. They both then proceeded to have a great day and whilst Lois's youth and natural ability shone through Nigel worked really hard and both of them finished off the day with release flights and looking good. Lois also took the honour of being the first student on the new Falcon which shows how much confidence we had in him:)

The hangies were joined by Russel S (Torquay) on a Paraglider also on his second day. He had a cracking day working well into his EPC tasks and getting better and more confident with each flight. By the end of the day and with the wind picking up he had moved into release flights and gentle turns down to land setting him up nicely for his next day out.

Meanwhile Simon D (Penzance) had been working hard with Kaz on his taster day and by just after lunch he was ready for the tow line and looking suitably apprehensive. He need not have worried his first flight was fine and his next two even better each one ending in "small celebrations" after stand up landings. After a short break Simon put in a bonus flight including his first release from the line and even bigger celebration, nice one.

Add to this a couple of tandem flights for Lois D on the Paraglider and Anne (Torquay) both of whom loved the experience and it was a super day for all. With the wind picking up and the cloud coming in I think we had the best of it by far.

Quote of the day "that was bl**dy marvellous" guess who ??