Monday, 21 July 2008

solo ... at last

finally after 5 years or so coming to wallaby ranch i achieveed my goal. My first sol handglide. It started at 8am ,weather conditons good, 1st flight with Malcolm to around 1200 feet , weak link broke for no real reason , flew down and landed fine, 5 mins later straight back up again with Malcolm, i knew thta this was gonna be my last tandem , flight went well, landing a little long but hey it was cautious, cautious is safe in my books.
The minute i was down then no sooner transfered to solo glider, littel time to think or worry , 5 mins later i was in the air with just me and the little plane towing me. 10 mins of shear concentration and i was up at heightand releasedto fly free.
Flight down was so slow so peaceful, time to look around before my final decent and approach.
Landinging wasnt perfect but hey i was down, no sooner down than back up again,
in total 4 flights that morning, and later on that evening me and ryan went down and did another one each.
A nice day, a hot day a very hot day...in fact one of them days where we all are pink now , one of them days where the pool didnt feel cold.
its 4am here as i write this , seems to be a common trait, writing in the middle of the night,
my kness are hurting i dont know why,

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