Monday, September 19, 2005

First Licenced Solo Flight

Well today I went to Lee and Kats house at Canungra for the first time. Cool place, very relaxing. After meeting up with Tex, John and Jonny jnr we went up to Tambo. Set up my glider a little nervously, I felt quite alone with out Jay not being with me for the first time but felt better once Russ came over. Think I caused a delemmer over answering a simple question over a hang strap extention. Wasn't sure about flying, especially with my new glider and the fact I hadn't flown it before. Decided to go for it. Knew I'd regret it otherwise. Lee chaperoned me to Launch and watched me run off. Couldn't hear his instructions on the radio so I did my own thing feeling uncomfortable the whole flight thinking Lee must think Im totally ignoring him. Launch was great, flight handling good, approach good but fumbled on landing. Never can remember my landings. Think its all the adrenaline in my system. John told me my arms were to low on the down bars preventing me from getting the extra flare I needed. I tend to agree. I think I surprised Lee though. He said I did really well. All up about 15 minutes. Feel great now that I've had a fly :)

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