This morning the weather at the field was overcast. Wind was about 20 km/h – bit more then what I have expected. Talitha and Jim got ready. Jim took off first – it was just quick circuit and immediately down for landing. Jim again was pulling a little too much break on take off but […]
So finally a beautiful evening. Temperature about 15 Celsius and slowly decreasing south wind. That’s the way I like them. Shortly after we have arrived the equipment was set up and both Jim and Tal were ready to go. Here is Tal about to get strapped in and here is Jim ready to go… It […]
Given the cold in the mornings we have decided to meet little bit later. At 7:30 AM wind was already up to 20 km/h per hour coming directly from east. East winds are absolutely terrible in this area, they are always turbulent and quite dangerous. Normally I do not test fly first thing in the […]
Temperature in the afternoon was bit better but still only 4°C. both Jim and to Lita had set up their gear and since Jim had good flight in the morning he let Tal to go first. She got ready, we tried several times but she has lost her ground handling skills. Since Talita needed break […]
Okay this is ridiculous – snow on April 16! I can’t believe it! Forecast was good for the morning with respect to the wind wind but temperature was -4. Yuck! We have arrived at the field, puddles were frozen, it was bit on it windy side – just freezing cold. Tal and Jim set up […]
It is awful outside. We are at Peaks watching Risk And Reward instructional video and doing more ground school work. Talitha has prepared 15 very good questions for me related to PPG so I spent about 1 hour answering. those. Then we watched about 20 videos of various PPG incidents and accidents on Youtube resecting and […]
Yesterday: + 25 Celsius. Shorts, T-shirt and sandals. Today: – 1 Celsius and snow on the grounds – what the heck, I have never been interupted by snow in the middle of April!? Forecast for today is bad. No flying today, too windy. GRRRRRRRR We will be getting together for 3 pom at Peaks do […]
No flying tonight – weather is bad
Since we could not fly I had introduced the students to a fun exercise which I call kite wars. The idea is that you handle the paraglider in such a way that you take away the wind from your opponents glider or use your paraglider to crash the other person’s wing. This is a lot […]
The forecast for this evening was really crappy. Jim has decided to take the night off – he said he was little sore after all that work in the past day and a half. Scott was only planning to train Saturday and Sunday but because the forecast for this evening was so bad he decided […]