Hang glider training pictures

This is just a dump of the camera for each day's training. Often there is virtually nothing because pictures are not a priority.
However sometimes the other people want a picture and this is where they are to be found.

Sat 28/02/2009
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Sun 01/03/2009
Shots of the book because the school keep it and I wanted a read.

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Mon 02/03/2009
The day I bent the training glider.

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Sun 15/02/2009
Sharing with some 'day one' beginners. Suddenly I know something.

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Tue 17/02/2009
The first day off the training ropes and after we finished I unwrapped and rigged the Rio for the first time.
Hence the smug owner shot.

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Sat 21/02/2009


Mon 30/02/2009
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Tue 31/02/2009
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Sat 04/04/2009
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Sun 05/04/2009


Mon 06/04/2009
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Fri 10/04/2009
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Mon 13/04/2009
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Wed 29/04/2009

Fri 01/05/2009
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Sat 02/05/2009
A bad wind day. I didn't even get a flight.

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Fri 18/09/2009
Well it was a long break but I just ran out of time as I had diving booked and paid for so Gliding had to take second place. Sadly I came back to a forecast that was trainee pilot good but the world didn't deliver. We went up to Swanbrough Down and we two EPers set up our school gliders at the bottom of the steep scarp while the CPers set up at the top. The wind wasn't good for us but it was just what they wanted and, after John talked through several flight plans, we headed up the hill to watch the fun.
It was a soaring day and I was jealous. <sigh>
When, finally, admitted defeat and headed back down the hill it was just in time to see one of the gliders pick up in the strengthening wind and tumble over a barbed wire fence and stop upside down in the next field.
We approached it from up wind, as you do, grabbed its nose and turned it back over and assessed the damage them bagged it up.

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Mon 21/09/2009
The wind was better on the Monday and Matt worked me hard. All the old bad habits had come back and needed to be slapped down. I was too tired by the end and I was making mistakes so I still didn't finish.
I only took one picture and that was a long view back up into Muggary Bottom where most of my training so far has happened.

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Wed 23/09/2009
It was another reasonable day and all that work on Monday finally paid off and I delivered consistency and, with the required flights in the book, John signed the final page of EP.
Now I need a red streamer of my own to indicate a sub-ten hour pilot.

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Wed 24/09/2009
Frst day of CP. No I'm not expecting to do much more this year.
Rig the roof rack, ladder and glider on the car and it takes half an hour.
Do a day in falling winds and comehome. De-rig the car in 25 minutes.

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Pictures by Nigel Hewitt and others
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