July 2/13 pm – Marc 6 more flights, Byron 7 more flights and Denis 5 flights
Even better evening. Guys did super well. Byron is doing all on his own.
July 2/13 am – Marc 5 more flights, Byron 6 more flights and Denis 3 flights
What a great morning.
June 30/13 pm – Marc 1 more flight, Byron 2 more flights and Denis first flight
Byron two veru nice flights. Marc, much better take of and very good landing. Denis could not run fast enough, sat down scraped the surface of earth for 50 ft and then somehow got in the air. Flew around nicely but then lost radio contact and had to land in dark on his own. Handled it well. Wow. Lots of adrenalin for Andre…
June 30/13 – Marc 1 flight, Byron 2 flights and Denis about to fly
Started at 7 o’clock in the morning. Conditions were perfect. Byron was showing really good control over his forward inflations so I have decided that he will be the first one to give it a go. We set up and after couple failed attempts Byron was in the air – completely calm and completely in control. He even got on the radio on his very first flight and was talking to me really calmly just no problem at all. He made a half decent landing little rough because he did not leave his legs out and stayed seated – that’s fine pretty good landing regardless. Next was Marc, he was rushing things a bit, always using too much power musculing his way through the inflations. His takeoff was one of the messiest I’ve ever seen – he did everything wrong stopped running and sat down, pull way too much break on lift off, started a major oscillation and pulled really hard right hand turn against the torque… yikes
Next was Denis to go. We got ready, inflated all was lined up properly he started to apply power and just like Marc he completely sat down – did not run at all. We tried couple more more times but no luck so Dennis took a rest. Byron quickly took off again – perfectly – just like before had a nice and calm flight. I then tried to Dennis again but the wind started to pick up real hard and it was nearly impossible to do forward inflation. Marc tried as well but at this point wind was simply too strong so we packed it up – not a bad morning but some crazy stuff! I definitely, definitely got my dose of adrenaline this morning – thank you Marc.
June 29/13 – Super long day with Byron, Denis and Marc
We started at 7 o’clock in the morning and didn’t finish until 7 PM. What a long day. I’m completely wiped. We have worked on for forward and reverse inflations we also did the runs with the motors. We have changed location along the runways about four times. It was windy. no wind, raining. Long and crazy day…
June 28/13 – Denis, Marc and Byron started PPG course
It was raining right from 8 am but since this was a first day of the course when we do the indoor ground school it was OK. We did the theory as required. Passed the pre-solo exam and issued SPP.
Then off to simulator.
Denis
Marc
Byron
Long but successful day
May 27/13 – Ian and his new helmet.
Ian came to pick up his new helmet.
This will compliment nicely his new RS Ultra promotor with R 90 engine and Cima K 2 paraglider.
Nice gear Ian!
June 25/13 – Too windy again
Last night me and Graham tried to fly last hour before sunset. Wind was supposed to go down to 19 km/h. Got to the field, it was OK but then wind picked up???!!! gusting to 30 km/h grrr. This has been weird year for flying…
June 25/13 – Please acknowledge new email
There are still few of you who email me at zemanandre@yahoo.com
Please change you email to zemanandre@gmail.com
I will not respond to emails to Yahoo address anymore and will shut down Yahoo mail soon.
Thanks
Andre
June 22/13 – No tandem flight. Bummer
No tandem flight. Bummer