A Morning at the Training Hill

Landon, Clover and I took advantage of a nice, sunny pre-frontal morning to go out to the South Side training hill.

Landon had the opportunity to work on his H1 beginner rating with Pete,

while watching "Curt" from Telluride get some refresher lessons. Curt has been "on hiatus" from hang gliding for a number of years, but is ready to get back into it.

He showed good form with his ground running - getting well through the control frame, and showing good angle of attack control. He then worked his way up the training hill as the morning breeze continued to build.

You can see in the video his minor corrections to maintain his heading straight into the wind to allow for some nice "wings level" landings. Nice job, Curtis!

Steve C. then demonstrated a new way to "fly a kite" right up the hill!

In my opinion, there are no safe shortcuts to airtime. We all have to "pay our dues" on the training hill first, get those launches and landings "dialed in" - in order to reap the rewards of some incredible airtime and longer flights later :-)