Tandem coaching

This is a review by Richard Garener who stayed with us recently Annecy bed and breakfast

Classroom: Lake Annecy and surroundings
Date: 14th April, 2009
Course: Intro. to X-C and thermalling 101
Instructor/pilot: Irwyn Jehu (M. X-C with Hons.)
Pupil: Richard Gardner (Novice = Yes!)
Glider: Gradient Bi- Golden (Tandem)
Site/launch: Plan Fait, Lake Annecy
Landing: SIV landing field, Bout du Lac
Syllabus: Climbing out, touching base, transition glides, low saves, route plans, sources of lift, swearing in welsh, keeping warm, in-flight banter, etc.
[Note: There's a sequence of photos to accompany the narrative at: http://www.flickr.com/photos/30865836@N06/ I'll try and post a tracklog if I can work out how...]

Paragliding today

To you guys comming over soon

Spring is here. The A Comp taking place here this weekend has clocked up thousands of K. A mate of mine failed to make goal in time yesterday and got 95K . He flew on to goal but in over 5 hours.
Not sure yet how they got on today.

Today Gareth and I had a gentlemanly bumble around the Grand Tour.  Huge strong smooth thermals from low down with cores of over 6.5M/S carrying us swiftly to base.
It did OD but the restitution has switched on now. Yesterday there were pilots big earing down after 7.30

Forecast is for a week disturbance mid week returning to good conditions by the weekend. If you don’t fly this week do try and get some ground handling in.

Gareth leading across Annecy today

All the best

Irwyn