That was the ratio of female students to male in the field today making a " pleasant" change to the norm, not that we mind have guys around!!
Jo and Sarah (Exeter) were back after a long lay off to move on with their EPC Paragliding whilst Sam T (Falmouth) came along for a Taster day on the Hanger, her boyfriend martin had tried a taster day Pg a couple of years ago so she thought she would try something different.
Along side them John S (Helston) was out to finish off his CPC tasks and Doug R (Bristol) was down to do a Tow conversion on his Paraglider so we had enough to keep us occupied.
Whilst Kaz and myself got the paragliders sorted and Jo and Sarah back into the swing of it Tim J put Sam through the ground work on the Hanger. Mid day saw everyone pretty much ready and in nice if slightly thermic conditions we got the winch up and running.
Doug got things moving with his first towed flight and was soon into it popping in the circuits whilst having some fun thermalling on about a third of them showing what can be done with a bit of experience, i got quite jealous......
Speaky (John) had a good time completing his CPC with Speed bar, Assymmetrics and Big ears to gain his qualification, well done. The Paraglider girls excelled themselves by getting into the groove and put in some super tow flights building up the height and turns before finishing the day on a flight to the top each so completing their EPC task, again well done. Hopefully they can find a way to carry on to CPC as we will miss them in the field especially their singing along with kaz to the Eagles, very apt.
Sam on the Hangy made it all look far to easy as she floated across the field with her first four flights being as good as they get. Her last two saw her having to put a few more corrections in but she did a great job and you could see she had grasped the basics of flying a hanger pretty good for day one. Hopefully she will be back as well and maybe her partner martin will join in having now been tempted to the stiffy from the floppy.
Nice to see guys out having fun at Godrevy and good to hear that some of the ex students were having a great time at Vault, make the most of it looks like a hangy week ahead......
Quote of the day " I don't want the day to end"
Soory no piccies but if anyone has some please email a few ;)
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