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
Sun 01/03/2009
Shots of the book because the school keep it and I wanted a read.
Mon 02/03/2009
The day I bent the training glider.
Sun 15/02/2009
Sharing with some 'day one' beginners.
Suddenly I know something.
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.
Sat 21/02/2009
Mon 30/02/2009
Tue 31/02/2009
Sat 04/04/2009
Sun 05/04/2009
Mon 06/04/2009
Fri 10/04/2009
Mon 13/04/2009
Wed 29/04/2009
Fri 01/05/2009
Sat 02/05/2009
A bad wind day. I didn't even get a flight.
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.
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.
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.
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.
The pictures can be accessed by clicking the thumbnail but they
tend to be 900K+ files
Pictures by Nigel Hewitt and others
Thumbnails by Easy Thumbnails
