Light WNW on the cards and the sun set to shine. With Bev P (N Devon) keen to get on with her hill conversion she stayed down ready for an early start. 8.00 and we met up at Perran where the the sun was out but the wind was fresh and the direction off to the south!
Still, being optimists I played around on the zero for a while to see what would happen. Sure enough the wind came on and even dropped a little, time to see what we could do. Colin N (Newlyn East) arrived and also got ready for hopefully his first hill experience.
With things mellowing bait Chris H (Sennen) broke out his shiny new Ozone Buzz Z 4 for it's maiden flight and did a great job of it dealing with the conditions and new wing well. He was soon up there having a ball and under Kaz's watchful eye finished off his qualification to become CPC rated on the hill, keep and eye out for him guys and gals. He spent the rest of the day having fun whenever conditions would allow :)
A couple of goes and Bev was up and away into the blue settling down nicely after a few beats and almost enjoying the view! She did a fine job sussing the correct track line and smoothing out her turns as she mixed it with the other pilots. Bit by bit the wind started to fill in again so we made the decision to beach land her and after a bit of speed bar practice followed by some Big Ears she descended nicely for a first class landing and lots of happy waving :))) Nice one.
By the time she returned to the top to a round of applause the wind had eased back a little so we gave Colin his first taste of ground handling on the hill. Challenging comes to mind and it was not long before the wind freshened so stopping "play".
Kaz's Sport 2 135 was sitting there so it would be rude not to fly it, oh what fun they are.
A bit more Zero flying along with Dean F on his new Zero before getting back to work by test flying Jeremy's "new" Hang Glider and doing a bit of tuning on it in readiness for his first flight on it. By now the wind was even fresher and the direction not ideal for him so he too had to hold fire.
Jerry S (Callington) dropped by for a Tandem flight and we had a fun time on the Hangy playing in the lift and chasing the seagulls before popping back in on top with big smiles all round particularly from his wife Sharon who was pleased (I think) to see him back.
A full on day with lots of flying for Paragliders, Hangy's and speed wings , can't be bad.
Quote of the day "I never though you had that much control" makes me wonder why they would ever come up tandem with me!
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