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The last flight for me for the decade, It was so good I could do it everyday

The wind was SSE, 15 knots, the wing a DHV 1. The main trouble was that the speed bar was not attached but with a cool head and quick thinking the pilot landed safely.

They say the journey is half the fun. We had a great adventure just getting to Spot X and the day was a great success. High gusty winds, and very cold ones at that, meant that not all paraglider pilots launched but for a winters day it was great to sit in the sun and watch those that did launch enjoy the wide very blue yonder.

the good old days of Paragliding and Hanggliding [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=apq6Ub2Gbyg[/youtube]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_z5m7m2_Op8[/youtube]

A tough take off and the pilot  has her hands full (so to speak)  but comes through it fine, high winds make it a difficult take off but she makes it off and has a great fly and an nice top landing.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am8Uph5ywd8[/youtube] The pilot had a small hiccup on this take off but handled it is style, he kept his cool all the way, its a cool head that pervales. Tandem takeoff turns to terror .... Turbulence takes the tamdem toward trees.

The call came in the other day "Franky, your new custom wing has arrived" Well, I was happier than, ...than. .. well I was happy, real happy, I was so happy you could even call me Ken (Now thats happy). The next thing was to plan the escape from the misses for two days while I went to Laurieton to get my new pride and joy. Read the rest of this entry »

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qB8CduqV-Qw[/youtube]

Here is a sneak preview of my new video 'Paragliding Bali', well, it is not really a sneak preview, in fact its not even a preview, its more like , 'I should put some of my footage online' type of thing, no music just the original background wind and chatter. Don't forget to vote.

When you pull the emergency handle it pulls the locking pin out of the stirrup and lets it drop away so that it cant get hung up on your reserve and prevent it deploying. [caption id="attachment_219" align="alignright" width="799" caption="Neat quick release for Foot stirup by SOL"][/caption]

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHsrFN2M6e0[/youtube]

Here is a site I would like to fly, it looks cool, way cool in fact. I am sure Bob likes to watch as everyone flying past his house.