I will be visiting my old homeland, Czech Republic, from Sep 15 to Oct 6 and Powered Paragliding Ontario will be closed.
If you do not wish to be grounded, order spare prop and cage section now so you have it before I leave.
After Gaetan purchased his gear (Kangook with Fly Evo 100 engine and Cima K 2 L) we completed all the paperwork and just before we said good bye he gave me a nice thank you card along with gift card and very nice note.
I know he would prefer that I do not share what he wrote so I will not.
Next, Ben came to take his paramotor (Kangook with Moster engine) from my trailer and loaded to his car. Once I was finished and he left, I open car door and there is this:
I will only drink this beer with you Ben!
What a great week, thank you very much guys.
Hughues (early 2013 student) came in to switch from Kangook swan necks bars to regular J bars. I have also fixed couple of litle things on his RS ULTRA Kangook R125 NG motor.
Again, we did not start flying till 8 pm. Wind calmed down very quickly which created somewhat difficult conditions but both Ben and Gaetan have managed to complete their course requirement of 30 flights. Congratulation to you both on completing course requirement.
Ben, 3 more flights. Gaetan, 5 more flights.
Totals:
Gaetan – 31 flights
Ben – 30 flights
Tommy – 3 flights
Ben deserves an honourable mention for entertaining me with bean landings, intentional partial stall, bean take off attempt and so on…
David came to pick up his new gear. Cima K 2 aka the Dominator and RS Ultra paramotor with Sky 110 engine.
Amazing morning. Winds from west at 15 km/h which allowed us to practice reverse inflations near the end of the session. Due to starts claoud there was minimal amount of turbulence which finally gave is very nice and long session.
Ben, 10 more flights. Gaetan, 8 more flights.
Totals:
Gaetan – 26 flights
Ben – 27 flights
Tommy – 3 flights
Windy this pm. We did not start flying till 8 pm
Ben, 3 more flights. Gaetan, 2 more flights.
Totals:
Gaetan – 16 flights
Ben – 17 flights
Tommy – 3 flights
Pretty good morning. Winds from west at 5 – 10 km/h which allowed us to practice forward inflations early on and revers inflations near the end of the session.
Ben, 5 more flights. Gaetan, 5 more flights. Tommy has unfortunately given up for good.
Totals:
Gaetan – 14 flights
Ben – 14 flights
Tommy – 3 flights
Crazy windy this pm. We kited with the training gliders.
I have showed the guys few advanced tricks and techniques such as how to kite glider without harness, how to gracefully drop it down in super high winds etc. Wind died down at sunset, we only had 30 min to fly – both Ben and Gaetan did quite well in challenging conditions. All inflations were reverse.
Ben, 1 more flights. Gaetan, 3 more flights. Tommy was standing by.
Totals:
Gaetan – 9 flights
Ben – 9 flights
Tommy – 3 flights
Forecast looks good for next couple of days, hoping to finish Friday evening as planned.
Wind picked up very quickly this am. We only had about 45 min window of opportunity.
Ben, 2 more flights. Gaetan, 2 more flights. Tommy 1 flight.
Totals:
Gaetan – 6 flights
Ben – 8 flights
Tommy – 3 flights
