Flight Logs

I booked a day of tandem training / assessment with airventures.co.uk. The plan was to meet up with Gordon and Malcolm at the Castlerigg stone for 10am. It's about an hour away from Lockerbie and then was a fair breeze in evidence along the M6. Heading in towards Keswick there was a wee bit of drizzle. So a traditional start to a day of pg training!

High pressure and light South easterly breeze was forecast. I had a plan to get out of the house after a busy couple of days at work. An evening walk up Jubilee Cairn. It's not a particularly easy walk but quite a nice fly down.

Was perfect. 12mph straight on the hill and two nosy Kestrels for company. One of those nights where flying alone is a pleasure. Whole ridge was working. 

No wind, so took my own advice and practiced forward launches.

Sunday morning lie in. in a tent! No kids. The day couldn't get any better.
Head out of the tent showed that the bonfire was still burning and people were stirring.
sky was blue. wave clouds were missing so game on.

The day started bright and sunny but as I'm talking about 6am it was bound to change as our club was hosting a round of the Scottish Nationals paragliding comp.

By 8.30 there were clouds in the sky. Quite sculpted clouds.. known by paraglider pilots as "wave" clouds. Pretty much a normal start to a days paragliding competition in the UK then!