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Aug 19/14 pm – Training with Mike

Absolutely spectacular evening again. We had visit from Canadian Army. Mike did 5 flights. Few very very minor changes needed but we are 99.99 % there. His landings are perfect now!

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Aug 18/14 pm – Training with Mike

Absolutely spectacular evening. Colours still very vivid. Mike did 4 flights, all almost perfect. Few very minor changes required but we are 99 % there. His last landing was perfect!

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Aug 18/14 am – Training with Mike

Absolutely spectacular morning. Colours were so vivid. Mike did two flight, both almost perfect. Some minor changes required but lot better then his last flight which was completely un-stabilized. Looking forward to our evening session.

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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.

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Ben, 3 more flights. Gaetan, 5 more flights.

Totals:

Gaetan – 31 flights

Ben – 30 flights

Tommy – 3 flights

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Ben deserves an honourable mention for entertaining me with bean landings, intentional partial stall, bean take off attempt and so on…

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.

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Ben, 10 more flights. Gaetan, 8 more flights.

Totals:

Gaetan – 26 flights

Ben – 27 flights

Tommy – 3 flights

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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Aug 12/14 pm – PPG course with Gaetan, Ben and Tommy

This was the radar at 4:30 pm with heavy rain falling down.

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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

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Ben – 6 flights

Tommy – 2 flights

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