Combe 05 March 08 NNW
Fi Burgess
Got to Combe about 3pm having heard it was a great morning. Lee took Lucy on the brand new, crispy beautiful TEAM 5 tandem and got to Cloudbase - it was her first ever flight and I think she might be hooked! I think Lee is rather keen on the tandem too. Also heard that some xc had been committed - 30km perhaps. Now it was quite blowy so I watched for a while, only to see 2 barbed wire victims almost at the same time at opposite ends of the Gibbet, both with speed bars, big ears and collapses, plus lots of mud and a very sore looking knee and toe. Feeling very sorry for them we waited a bit longer and sure enough it settled down for a wonderful soar around with the red kites until sunset. Ground handling wing wars were rather good fun too. Very nice to see Lawrence and Simon out as well.
Got to Combe about 3pm having heard it was a great morning. Lee took Lucy on the brand new, crispy beautiful TEAM 5 tandem and got to Cloudbase - it was her first ever flight and I think she might be hooked! I think Lee is rather keen on the tandem too. Also heard that some xc had been committed - 30km perhaps. Now it was quite blowy so I watched for a while, only to see 2 barbed wire victims almost at the same time at opposite ends of the Gibbet, both with speed bars, big ears and collapses, plus lots of mud and a very sore looking knee and toe. Feeling very sorry for them we waited a bit longer and sure enough it settled down for a wonderful soar around with the red kites until sunset. Ground handling wing wars were rather good fun too. Very nice to see Lawrence and Simon out as well.
