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Two weeks of greatness!

Posted on May 23, 2012 in Phil Jennings   

With another flyable weekend forecast, I headed off early to catch up with Deano who was busy training TV adventurer Charlie Boorman at Parajet HQ. The day ended up being very thermic and wasn’t ideal for Charlie’s first flight so he had to make do with ground handing and soaking up the summer rays.

I decided to go and do some economy training which turned into one of my best thermic flights for a long time. I killed the engine at 300’ and took lift up to 2000’ in quite strong conditions - all this on a 20m wing! After calling in the Fox and Hounds for an early bite to eat we returned for a mad blast around the bright yellow oil seed rape fields till dark.

This week one of my local farming friends has silaged all his fields and after a quick phone call I had acres of super short grass to play with… So bring out the pylons! It’s amazing to think that you can get 2 pylons, 2 leaf blowers, windsock, fuel cans, exercise ball, cage pieces, paramotor and wing in a 2 door Golf!

Next week it’s the French Open so on the road again.

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