I got Kevin, Govindan and Jason in this PPG course. Kevin asked not to be put on web so there will be no pics of him.

Ground school went very well, I had all the forms pre filled with student’s personal information so that saved us a lot of time. I also had all the simulators and motors fully assembled so we were able to manage everything in very good time.

  Jason

  Govindan

Giving the beautiful conditions at the field with the right amount of wind it was good that ground school was finished by 230. That gave us solid five hours at the field. We started with usual. Learning about the wind. Learning about the field. Learning how to get glider out of the bag nd how to put on training harness on.  Unpack paraglider and hook it up for reverse inflation.

Then it was ground handling four hours on. Everybody’s doing well but there is no champion yet. This is the most frustrating part but It’s also the hardest part. We finished at 8 PM. Very long day, that was 12 hours of work with the rest. I do earn my money. Feeling a little stiff going to bed.

We will resume today  at 10 AM and plan to put full day of work in.

Hi pilots and friends: One of our PPG pilots has been buzzing over Rattlesnake Point Golf Club, on numerous occasions, including this weekend. The VP of my company, who is a member of this golf club, has come to me personally to ask if I know the pilot involved. The golfers find this intrusion very annoying, and would like it to stop. I ask you to please find some were else to fly instead of over the golf course, or keep a legal hight. Lets all work together to keep our sport on a positive note.

Ziggy

In the morning Bobby managed his first flight. It also took about 10 tries but he finally hit it. Nice flight but wind up high must have been close to 30 km/h so at one point Bobby was pretty much parked overhead. Pretty good and soft bean landing.

Congrats Bobby on you first solo flight!

In the afternoon Bryan came and quickly mastered reverse.

After about 1 hour Bryan was kiting with motor on and was ready for first solo. In no time we were set up and Bryan was off on fist inflation, all went absolutely perfect.

Bobby also got ready and after couple of tries was in the air as well.

After Bryan landed, he was fired to go again. This time he backed off the power during take of run, sat down and busted prop :-(

Bobby landed long and bit cross wind, enjoyed the flight but got slight motion sickness from not looking out on horizon.

The wind started to die off so we packed up. Congrats Bryan on you first flight and a first prop bust. We say you are not PPG pilot until you destroy a prop so I guess you are one now, eh?

PPG course dates for 2016 posted here:

http://www.poweredparaglidingontario.com/course-dates-and-pricing/