Who Ray Henry and a few more

It was one of those kind of strange days in the field when the forecast bore little resemblance to what went on and fortunately it was actually better than forecast and with a busy day on it played into our hands :)

Ray S (Dartmouth) was along for a Taster day on the Paragliders and Lylus (Bristol) for one on the Hangers and they were joined by Duncan B (Culumpton) and Paul H (Ivybridge) on Paragliders and Henry G (Truro), Tom G (Exeter) and Jenny S (Falmouth) on the Hangers.

With the wind flicking about in the morning and the holiday traffic holding up the arrival of some of the hangies it gave us a chance to catch up on some theory whilst the taster days got sorted.  Both ray and Lylus worked hard through their ground based activities and by lunchtime they were sorted and ready for a well earned rest.

Paul H leans into a super forward launch

Kaz encourages Duncan to join the Morris Men

With everyone now on site the wind kindly sorted itself out and we soon got the winch set up and were ready to roll. After a quick test of the air the guys got going with Paul h and Duncan B leading the way on the Paragliders followed by the hangs and the Taster days.  Everyone had a super time and mixed in well making it a very sociable and fun afternoon despite the mixture of gliders and levels.

Henry gets going

and head's off into an interesting looking sky (Cumulus Crimpus)

Tom in perfect symmetry

By the end of the day Paul had completed his EPC tasks and carried out a couple of high flights to set him on his way with his CPC ones. Duncan had moved deep into his CPC tasks and ready to start the "instability" ones .......Tom  settled down to high flights on the hangy and practised both spot landings and base bar conversions which went well although not so good for the windsock!

Henry and Jenny moved through gentle turns and into steeper ones with Henry giving me another grey hair to add to the collection. Jenny got her first flights on the deer old Mars and looked very colour co ordinated with it.

Pretty colours, very girly

Hangies hanging out

Kaz gets a chance to fly doing a demo for Ray

Ray and Lylus both got their taster day flights under their belts with Ray making "a right mews" of one launch giving his wife Lyndsay something to laugh about and some things to wash!  Lylus made huge progress over his flights with something clicking on each one and his final one being a cracker :)

Ray rigged and ready

and then he's off and away

Lylus gets set as Henry takes a bite

Lylus gets to grips with it

Finally whilst the guys packed up we took the opportunity to let Phil L loose on the winch and myself under Tim,s watchful eye. He put in six very nice tows without making me run too hard and also without me leaving my boots behind, a try with the Paragliders next, watch this space......

Quote of the day "there's some very strange things going on round here today"