Wind chasers

Another fine forecast and another fine day in the tow field.  James R was back as he moves further into his CPC Paragliding Rodney A (N.Devon) was along to start a Paramotoring course and Steve B (Yeovil) was along to hopefully finally get his dream of Hang Gliding sorted after starting it back in the 1980's !

With  a convergence line building again early there was a lot of lift around with seagulls thermalling away from 10.30 and climbing out from 50'above the field, hmmmmmm.

Kaz sorted Rod on the Paraglider and I got Steve going on the Hanger which despite having done a fair bit of flying in the USA did not include rigging!  They both worked hard and by lunchtime were ready for a rest before towing got underway.

The winch was set and I did a couple of demonstration flights both of which proved it to be too lively for students so we stood down.  A bit more ground handling a bit of field trimming and things calmed down as the afternoon drew on.  Just as we were ready to pop the guys up the wind moved, we moved, it moved, we moved and finally we settled and it nearly did!

Hooray it's in the right direction !

James popped up and moved a little deeper into his CPC, Rodney got his first flights in and looked pretty good and Steve  proved that he can fly a hang glider on the uprights although he does like landing on his wheels ;)

James has a go at spot landing .....

A long day saw us wrap at 20.00hrs with everyone ready for a rest as the convergence finally gave way, someone could have flown a long way today ...............