Carlsberg Day

 Happy hangies with Dave D giving the thumbs up after his first soaring flight

 Happy paras as they get ready to fly with some ground handling first

I love it when a plan comes together and today was one of them.  Based on the forecast we planned on towing till early afternoon then off to the hill as the wind filled for some hill conversions and that's what happened!

In the field we got Tiege S (Hereford) going on his first day on the tow and he made the most of it with 8 flights across the field which saw him go from "moon walking" to untethered 20' by the time we stopped play 9ran out of petrol).  Alongside him Jack S (Truro) popped in some more flights on his new Advance Alpha 5 and looked well ready for the hill..

hangy Dave D (Newquay) made a welcome return and got his hand in back on the Calypso giving us both the confidence to take him to the hill with us.

With no fuelin the winch and the wind filling in we made a swift transition and headed to Sennen Cove to see what we could do there.  On arrival it was nicely flyable for hangies so the guys wasted no time in putting the Calypso together whilst i sneaked a flight in on Paul H's Falcon in seated, great fun :)

Phil L (Illogan) took the calypso up first having not flown a hangy since he qualified 6 weeks ago and did a super flight looking like he had never been away.  Watching him settled Hangy Daves nerves  nicely and as soon as Phil unclipped Dave was in there.  He had a lovely first soaring flight  really getting in tune with the wing after his initial tenseness and learning so much.  20 minutes later he floated in to perform a tippy toe top landing and i can't possibly print his reaction !

Phil was straight back in there and popped in another flight as things began to mellow making his top landing a bit more of a challenge.....

The Paraglider boys had been waiting "patiently" and despite the forecast things began to improve for them with the wind just easing back nicely.  Martin j took full advantage to get two nice flights in and so gain his hill qualification and make him all sorted, well done, so watch out for him on the hills please.

Jack S finally was let off the leash and proved that all his tow practice was worth it by also putting in a couple of cracking flights to get him half way through his hill endorsement, not long now.

So a great day all round and nice to see so many hangies having fun including ex student James C who was whizzing around the place on his Wills Wing Sport 2 135 and going places where no one else would go.  He was joined by kaz, paul and  nigel w on the hangers.