Aug 16/14 – Hughes, motor adjustment
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.
Archive for year: 2014
Aug 15/14 pm – PPG course with Gaetan, Ben and Tommy
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…
Aug 15/14 – Dave gets his new gear
David came to pick up his new gear. Cima K 2 aka the Dominator and RS Ultra paramotor with Sky 110 engine.
Aug 15/14 am – PPG course with Gaetan, Ben and Tommy
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
Aug 14/14 pm – PPG course with Gaetan, Ben and Tommy
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
Aug 14/14 am – PPG course with Gaetan, Ben and Tommy
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
Aug 13/14 pm – PPG course with Gaetan, Ben and Tommy
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.
Aug 13/14 am – PPG course with Gaetan, Ben and Tommy
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
Aug 12/14 pm – PPG course with Gaetan, Ben and Tommy
This was the radar at 4:30 pm with heavy rain falling down.
I thought there is no chance we will fly but the rain stopped at 6:30 pm and by 7 grass was dry enough to fly.
Ben, 3 more flights. Gaetan, 3 more flights. Tommy first solo and second flight as well. Congrats Tommy on your first solo tonight!
Totals:
Gaetan – 4 flights
Ben – 6 flights
Tommy – 2 flights
Aug 12/14 am – PPG course with Gaetan, Ben and Tommy
No flying or kiting this am – rain.
Watched and dissected Youtube crash videos.
Also I have passed my color blidnes test today so i can start working towards my commercial aeroplane flying.
