Pete s flying diary!.

[Pete Cooke]

another 10 mins would of made it 5hours of fun at the seaside , the skys were full of colorfull wings spiraling satin winging etc  and steve g showing us all his superb flying skills with tandem  passengers screaming with delight! 12.30 launch in very light wind 2 beats and top land little ground handling then launch agian to find myself side landing and having to  pick  my wing from the thorniest bush in wales.i looked up to see mogsie chucklin .back to take off untangle the mess and try agian .the winds picked up and soon theres 20 plus wings up .there they stayed all day long .i managed to get around 16 flights and almost 5hours airtime .who cares if its blown out tomoz......

[Norris]

Nice one mate.....says it all.

[Pete Cooke]

good morning Cwmbran fairwater ..noris and i arrive on site 7.30am and make our way to take off 15 mins of verticle climb finds us at the largest take off in wales .lots of grey clouds but the sun is wining the fight,wind is very light we both rig ready for flight .very soon we were scratchin the ridge with a little lift here n there and sink .several side landings.after an hour of hard work the conditions came good noris and i were able to go were we wanted .we both pushed out reaching the edge of cwmbran on the edge of the lift band then back to the hill several times .my phone rings -jeremy says he is on way then steve mogsie.back to the sky booming conditions real lively 11.15 finds the grey sky on top of us .we land just as jeremy and rhys arrive unfortunately for them flying is off .steve mogsie arrives with a hot flask and munchies nice one steve!.jeremy noris and i head home leaving steve and rhys to get soaking wet .noris had 9 flights hour n half airtime i got in about 15 flights over 2hours airtime.this was the first early morning flying this year .geting to the hill early paid off.YOU GOT TO GET IT OUT TO GET IT UP!!!!