First Swiss Group, Flugschule Ostschweiz, 2011
Thursday, November 10th, 2011 Posted in Flugschule Ostschweiz 2011, Uncategorized |Our Swiss group Stefan arrived in Cape Town late on Friday the 4th November, arriving at the nest, Birdmen’s nest we had a few drinks , Beers and good Cape Wine, doing a briefing on the next few days, ...
Gatskop Oct 2011
Monday, October 24th, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized |Gatskop is a fun competition, more in the lines to get the lower air time and newly qualified pilots, out of the nest and to fly some distance within a safe environment, with retrieve and more senior pilots to coach ...
Arrival of Mike Riley and Student flying
Monday, October 17th, 2011 Posted in Arrival of Mike Riley and Student weekend, Uncategorized |Mike arrived in time for good flying in Porterville over the weekend, Mike is flying his new Advance Impress3 harness with the new Sigma, looking very stylish. Saturday we headed to Pampoenfontein Porterville, on arrival meeting up with a good few students ...
Sweedish group Second week Flying
Tuesday, October 11th, 2011 Posted in Uncategorized |Saturday after a good lie in, and a late breakfast prepared by Candice, headed to the Holiday Inn, not surprised the wind was a little cross but 30- 35km p//hour, no normal flying but good for the small 16 ...
First Sweedish group 2011
Tuesday, October 4th, 2011 Posted in First Sweedish group 2011, Uncategorized |Hermanus Our Season 2011/2012 has started, arriving from Sweeden Danny and Niki, also joining us was Laurence and his girl friend Sara flying for a few days then going on their great adventure travelling up to Namibia then ending off ...
Students Qualifying, Basic paragliding license
Sunday, September 18th, 2011 Posted in New Basic Licenses, Uncategorized |We would like to congratulate Gaylyn Warren, Allen Tucker, Tian Smuts, Dewaldt Horn and Michelle Black on passing and getting their Basic Paragliding Licence, well done to you all, and we hope you will fly to new heights and explore this ...
Last two months of school training
Sunday, September 18th, 2011 Posted in Last 2 months training, Uncategorized |We have had such allot of flying, it has been fantastic, not only on the weekends but also during the week days. It starts with ground handling and a little confusion. Look at Kevin's t-shirt. We have flown site like Pampoenfontein, Pieketberg, ...
First Female PPG student airborne
Friday, August 5th, 2011 Posted in First Female PPG student airborne, Uncategorized |First female PPG student Airborne. Last Monday afternoon about 4.30pm we went to Goedgewachgte with a light SE blowing, after good preparation and a few trial pull ups, the motors were fired up, excitement and Adrenaline was pumping, Johannes Jansen and Michelle ...
Mid July training
Friday, August 5th, 2011 Posted in Mid July training, Uncategorized |We have had allot of new students starting and also good training days, during the week ground handling training and weekends flying. Last weekend we had 5 new student pilots doing their first flights and was this a exciting day, most of ...
Table Mountain flight in mid July
Friday, August 5th, 2011 Posted in Table Mountain flight, Uncategorized |Looking at the waether on Thursday evening for Friday , Table Mountain was calling so I called Gene Lohrenze and Wayne Heuer to goin me going TM to fly as the prediction was looking good NNE 15. We arrived at the ...