23rd aug

the top photo is of where we were staying for the week, the house was right oppisite the goal field. having flown 17 days out of 19 and completing a tough comp its time to go back to the rain / uk. i have two more comps to do before returning to Oz. Results and reports of the comp can be found via www.pgcomps.org.uk

23rd aug

I seem to alternating my good days and bad days but 2 bad tasks out of 5 is not too bad, lessons learnt is dont try to keep up with a dozon pwc pilots on comp wings and dont do 7k transitions between mountains when the area goes under shade, doh!

15th aug, comp time

The comp has begun, i have never been in a comp before with so many good pilots, there are 15 -20 pwc pilots here and we also have bruce goldsmith, russ ogden and charles cazuex as wind tech's, should be an intresting week.

12th aug

Am in st Jean for some pre comp flying, st Jean isnt a well known comp area but looks like it will be more popular in the future, its known for its lite winds and high bases and resonable sized mountains with lots of foot hills out front.

8th aug, st Andre

Am in st andre for a few days for some rough air training, st andre to me has always been a place i wouldnt go for recreational flying but i need to see what the m3 is like in rough air so here i am. and the answer is that the glider is good in rough air, doesnt move about as much as the m2. the photo is me escaping a growing cu nimb, about five minuets after this photo there was lightning striking the ground, i landed back at st andre and packed up shortly berfore the gust front and rain.

In France

Well after a month of rain in the uk i am pleased to see its not raining in France, its hot and sunny with lite wind, must be flyable. spent a few days flying Gourdon in the morning and Greoleier in the arvo, it intresting watching the ozone boys( Russ n Dav ) doing there testing,

i didnt know doing helicopters was part of the testing as they did lots of em.

RAIN,RAIN and more RAIN, not much paragliding going on here so i am off to the southern french alps next week, hooray.