Stuck up at Sennen

An interesting forecast saw us heading to Sennen Cove where a light NNW was forecast to pick up to a fresh one around mid day.  On arrival it was light, like really light and whilst it was possible to fly just on the Paragliders slope landings were the name of the game.

Mark P and girlfriend Sam W joined us for hopefully some Tandem flying and looked on as the floppies flopped.  Sure enough the wind began to fill and it was not long before I took the Delta 2 up to test the air.  It was lift and getting liftier the longer I stayed up with orographic cloud starting to form.  a quick flight to the old coastguard lookout to the west then up to Gwenver to the north was enough to convince me that it was time to land as the wind steadily increased.

Landing pretty much stationary I left Geoff R and Andy R in the air with Kaz putting her wing back in the bag!  With it now blowing 20 + on launch Andy R made a good effort and Big eared to the beach where it was still windy enough.  Geoff R on the other hand was stuck in no mans land with Big Ears in and full speed bar on and going nowhere, neither down nor forward.  Still a after about 10 minutes and a few involuntary manoeuvres he finally slipped the winds grasp and just about made it onto the beach, phew ......

So time to Hang Glide :)  Mark was first up on the Tandem and had an absolute ball in the bountiful lift as we played with the cloud and the gulls before coming in for a super smooth landing.  Sam could not wait to get up there but as it was we did whilst a bit of dampness went by. But not for long and with it looking much brighter we were off again accompanied by a few screams ....... a cracking flight and great fun watching the army boys seeing who could hang on the longest to the breakwater before falling off one by one into the sea.

Big G joined us now flying his Topless Hangy seated and looking pretty good at it too, Kaz popped up a couple of times as did Sam A and having walked back up from the beach Andy R got in on the act on his Hangy .

All's well that ends well and it certainly did for all.

Quote of the day "there's twelve of them, oh, now only eleven"