Rain stop Play!

With a nice forecast all be it the chance of the odd shower in the afternoon it was another day in the field and things looked good.

Todd gets back into it with a classic launch stance

Todd A (Torquay) was back and joined by Paddy B (Falmouth) who is nearing the end of his CPC tasks, Graham A who having not flown for 3 months since completing his hill rating fancied some refresher work, Mark S (London) who came along for a bit more towing and experience and Emil K who was starting a Paramotor conversion having learnt paragliding with us a while back..  The wind took a little while to settle but we soon got underway into a light NNE.

celebrating a good one :))

Todd was up for consolidating his high flights before moving into his CPC tasks and gave us (and himself) a challenge with a variety of techniques making it unwise for Kaz to pull him to the top, guess he had slept since last being out when he looked pretty good!  Still it was not long before he got it sorted and was looking good and popping the high flights in and moving nicely into his CPC tasks.  Paddy finished off his CPC tasks and had fun just flying around and building experience.

 Graham A (Devon) made a fine job of getting back in the air on the tow looking like he had never been away and smiled the whole time, back to the hill for him feeling confident I hope.  Mark s popped in a couple of tows and worked on tighter turns as having come from hang gliders had not quite worked out the delay time in a Paraglider, well at least an Element!!

Billy Whizz (Graham A) follows suit with a cracker

Emil meanwhile had practised ground handling with the Paramotor on his back before doing the run around bit to get the torque sussed.  Finally he did a few practise take off runs and aborts in readiness for his first flight.

Emil gets the hard work out of the way

Then the rain came, it had been sitting all around us all morning but finally closed in and sent us scurrying to the van where we spent the next hour or so doing theory in one van whilst Emil took his hill exam in the other which he passed making him fully qualified on the Paraglider so watch out for him on the hills.

.......... and relaxes

With it plainly not going to clear we headed home to complete the theory side and for Todd and Paddy to take their EPC and CPC exams respectively which they both passed, well done.

Lets hope for a full day tomorrow but at least it means we keep up with the theory side:)

Quote of the day " I think it's going to miss us" ..................

Thanks to paddy for the piccies (once again)