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Saturday, August 04, 2012

Getting converted !

 Clive a gets set to run as Luke launches us on the Tandem

Off and away with Rame head in the distance

After a hard few days catching up at home it was time to get out flying again and to get some real work done.

Luke N made the long trip down from the far side of London to have a go at his Tandem Hang Gliding rating having now racked up sufficient hours and experience since learning to fly less than 2 years ago.  We met at Freathy where conditions were spot on and whilst the rest of the county had heavy showers we were blessed with sunshine all day :)

After watching Luke fly his uncles (Mark) glider and having had spent the last week in France with him at the British Nationals i deemed him up to it so off we went.  a couple of flights as passenger with myself as pilot gave Luke the idea then it was his turn.  He did a great job getting better and better with each flight and relaxing more and more.  By the end of the day he was on the ball and I'd be happy for him to take any of my family up so that says it all I guess.

Local pilot Mike gave us a hand on the ground as amazingly there was a lack of pilots out giving us the whole ridge between 4, can't be bad.  Mike took the chance to fly our demo ASKA and had a ball finding it much more user friendly than the Bobcat that he used to fly, ask him.

Clive A from St Ives made the trip up and had a cracking dual flight on the hangy with me in perfect conditions and made a pretty good job of flying it himself.

heading back towards launch on a super flight
Clive looking pretty relaxed after his flight

To round the day off Luke tried out my Wills Wing T2C and had a ball just loving it and landing with the words amazing, fantastic, easy and got to have one all coming out of his mouth so i guess he was impressed.....

Whilst Luke drigged the hangy i had a fun time practising fast flying along the cliffs and racking up a few XC k's for the local league. All in all a very nice day and well done to Luke for making the effort and flying so nicely.
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