June 23/16 – Kevin finished up
Started at 7 am. Kevin was on the roll. By 9:30 he had 12 flights on his belt to total 32. We have practiced engine out procedures and big ears safe descent maneuver.
Congratulations Kevin on completing practical course requirements.
June 19/16 – Another 2 great tandems.
It was a magical evening. The wind has died off and we just flew and flew…
June 4/16 – Great 2 tandems this morning
It was awesome. Bit bumpy for the end of the second intro flight.
June 3/16 pm – Jeff refresher training.
Jeff has finished his license early Sep 2015 and this was first time since he decided to fly again.
It was very good idea to book a refresher session with me as Jeff has forgotten bunch of things. The kiting came right back but the hook up did not – he was going to fly with main shoulder straps very loose and that could couse bad torque turn.
Also Jeff completely forgot how to turn into reverse after landing – this can cause pilot to stumble backwards and fall on the motor (we call it a “turtle”) usually causing some damage to prop or cage or both. It got me bit excited as you can hear in one of the videos. Good training session, 3 flights – wind did complete 180 turn on us diring second flight and I had to remind Jeff 3 times not to land down wind.
Even though Jeff was 100 % proficient in Sep it was essential for him to get this refresher – several mistakes were cough by me that would otherwise go unchecked.
May 29/16 pm – Graham
It was just me and Graham this PM. Great conditions. Graham managed 11 flights and he now sits on 20. Nice work – all went really well.
May 29/16 am – Graham
Six flights for Graham this morning. It clicked and he is back on the horse. It was all well done. Graham has now 9 flights in his log book. 21 to go.
Former student Herman stopped by to say hallo and did some low level flying and touch and go’s. Great fun. He loves his Kongook with Moster engine.
May 28/16 pm – Graham
Para-waited from 5 pm to 8 pm as we had some serious cloud development all around us. At one pont it almost looked OK but I though something was not right. Sure enough in 10 minutes we got pretty good gust front with wind up to 35 km/h.
Things have settled down by 8 o’clock so we had about an hour to practice forward inflations.
Unfortunately Ben has rapidly died off and We didn’t have enough time to actually try flying. Graham still bit week from all that heat all day. We’re planning to do some more tomorrow morning so stay tuned.
May 28/16 am – Scott and Graham
Started early with Scott. He has already finished his 30 flights and got signed off but `recently decided to use trike and some conversion training was needed. At 7:30 AM the wind was already picking up close to 10 km/h so I have decided that instead of using Scott’s extra large canopy we were using my – size small. That has bought us some time and we were able to do one and half hour of practice taxiing. By the end of it, Scott was getting hang of it but then when picked up to almost 15 and that was too much. We decided to finish as with more wind there is way bigger chance of getting the trike tipped.
Graham has arrived at 9:30 in the morning. We had very good wind for reverse inflations. Incredible change happen overnight basically Graham was nailing it on every try – perfect skill. Unfortunately the heat was so impressive and in about an hour and a half Graham was done. It was just too hot. I think Graham had a real heat exhaustion/heat stroke. Well, we’ll be back at it tonight and if the weather is good, Graham will fly.