The family light!

Friday we had a break from the wet stuff and off
we went to collado garcia with the light family
in tow .
Tony Light is keen on throwing his children and
their friends off mountains ( attached to pilot and wing of course!)
this time it was the turn of Jo and her friend Jenny to have a tandem
with Gecko Fly.
Tony had carelessly mentioned in an email that if
there was time he would have had a go ... and
what do you know ... there was time je je je
Richard a blues guitarist from http://www.fade2black.info/
tipped the scales over our weight limit so sorry
Richard no flying until we get a bigger wing!
Vaughan who is doing a bit of training came along
thanks for the retrieves Vaughan, all part of the training!!


Juan medico and Juaquin came along as well
and what lovely flying smoooooth dynamic
soaring with some gentle cloud suck ...chupa chupa!
Juan tried to do an impression of a tree decoration
but when we got the camera out he was on his feet
as if nothing had happened!

Collado Garcia

yesterday we were flying at collado garcia in the
Sierra Filabres . we got in three (just) tandem flights
in very pleasent air... lots of local pilots turned up
and apart from needing air-traffic control at times
everyone had a good time !

after the flying all the passengers and spectators
had a mission to go and watch england get beaten
by south africa in the rugby!
well we couldnt resist going along and the faces say it all!
here is Sam close to desperation with only a few minutes of
hope left!

Tres pilotos locos!


Hector (phenomeno)


Antonio (la maquiña)


De Bumble (well almost a pilot, but loco seguro )

learn to fly?

The first stage of learning to fly is learning how

to control the wing on the ground ....suprisingly

this is much harder than the flying bit,

well at least at first! its far easier to learn at the

beach with smooth laminar wind .

Here is vaughn and geoff getting to grips with

the reverse launch near Aguilas

waiting for the tooth mouse

Ann Marie, her daughter and dad all travelled down from Totana for a tandem - 45 minutes of flying, beautiful patches of sunshine lighting up the plain toward the Sierra Marias. Dolly (the rogue sheep) was looking much whiter after the recent rains!

Ann Maries's daughter Meia was more concerned with her wobbly tooth than whether her mum was ok - you can see a video of their landing below!

Hope the tooth mouse brought you some money!

Ann Marie - aterrizaje con Gecko Fly

la ganadora! Gecko Fly tandem prize!

The winner of the Gecko Fly raffle took up her free flight after three months of plucking up the courage!
Here we see Annette looking worried as it dawns on her that Steve really does mean she has to run off the edge at Saliente!





Annette really enjoyed her flight - so much so that she wanted to fly again - but the rumble of thunder meant she had to have a scary drive down the mountain instead!

Nice soft landing - Suze's tandem flight

Suze and Al came out with Gecko Fly,

Suze's first time in the air - you can see the video of her flight at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CFCR15UsK9s

when conditions allow ,we like to take you on

a little cross country flight! a run down the ridge

of 6Km and a chance to spot dolly

and eagles along the way and then to

land in this lovely hay field next to the road

kiting?

just a couple of nice photos of what

the americans call kiting! we sort

of call it ground handling....

anyway practice practice makes for

better takeoff and flying skills

this is one of our paramotor take off sites

next to the beach near Villaricos

Nice photos trudy and thanks for spotting the

hurculeas transport aircraft ground skimming the

beach just as I was getting ready to take off!!

energía solar- Valle del Almanzora-Almeria :solar power

Here in Andalucia we do have sun !

dont believe the hype! not every day is sunny

but we have enough to generate our own power

recently we have seen lots of new solar installations

springing up , which has got to be good news.

here is one in Almanzora and lots more planned

in the same area. let it shine!!!

la boda! de Jane y Nathan

well what fun we had yesterday !... torrential
rain and a thunderstorm and lighting show above
our heads for most of the night . lightning that was
Blake-esque in its magnificent posturing, anyway
not the day to get married! luckily for Jane and Nathan
(from Australia) they had their wedding blessing planned
for today at the Santuario in Saliente where the weather
co-oporated a little better, and we were booked to take
aerial photos of them and their family .....
Felicidades from gecko fly !

Sun Sea and Paramotoring!

Sunday the sea and then some flying with t'shirt
and shorts ....goes together well i think

We dont like going on endlessly about gear,
we like to fly more! but we do like Pap Paramotors
this is the Ross 100 :1400: smooth ,smooth,
power and control!

This isn't our van but it would be nice
if it was!

Instability

As paragliding pilots we love instability , that's
basically when the atmosphere is active and the
thermals we love to ride are produced, all this
is to a point! but with our wings we have to know
our limits, today a little too active for us , this
beautiful cumulus growing and growing above
Cortijo Al Viento this afternoon

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pajero con botas

Hoy, volando encima El Santuario del Saliente, dia del virgen 2007

Dia de virgin de saliente 2007

El santuario de saliente con la vista de
Sierra Maria detras

El camino sube por los peregrinos !

El Santuario con los primeros rayos de sol

peter and eileen

Peters flying , eileen's filming! we
hope peter was waving on the flypast
and not just too nervous
to let go!

oh larry how we flew that day!

Sunday at Saliente

Sunday was different! chechu, antonio, juan
and juaquin took off mid day . antonio and juan
landed in Oria and chechu flew on to make 30km
after getting over 800m above saliente.
Early eve they were back flying in smooth
restitution lift this is the view from the terrace of
the resturant at saliente, where we were sipping
a cool beer after flying larry


chechu big ear-ing in to land on the plaza



larry demonstrating how to run
with commitment! Woah !!! larry
we're not quite ready to fly yet

parawaiting

Sept 1st our flying fiesta ! the forcast was
levante (easterly winds) normaly not a problem
here in Saliente when we get alot of thermal heating
in the valley, but couple this with cloud cover
and you get alot of pilots waiting at takeoff until
a thunderstorm cloud started developing
behind takeoff and we all went for a beer instead!
4 of us flew earlier on in the day for well over an hour
having great flights but sods law when
everyone turned up to fly or watch it was pretty
much un flyable.What a difference a day makes!
sunday however was a different story!