Tandems Are Sweet!

Ahhh, Golden weather - it's much to be desired this year! Rain and wind have put a downer on the Willi XC comp. We've all been flying here and there, but over the last few days it's been difficult to fly any sort of reasonable distance. Yesterday was howling and the day before that it was sort of marginal with cloud suck although a couple pilots did fly something like 30k or 35k...I wasn't inspired and decided to stay on the ground.

I managed to sneak in 2 tandems yesterday which was sweet. Launches are really coming along and the landings are slowly getting there too. Of course, the flying part is just fun.

Tandem out in Vernon, BC

Tandem out in Golden, BC

My sexy wing!

Trying to hit the lucky 7

I'm half way to my Tandem 1 rating - only 10 more tandems to go! Realistically I'm not sure I'll be able to do more than 3 before I go home in a few days, but I sure will try. The forecast looks pretty dismal for today and tomorrow, and I'd love to do some proper XC as well as tandems, but as usual, we are at the mercy of the weather and there's not much you can do when it just plain sucks!

Spirits are a bit higher and the friendly flying community atmosphere are making things as good as they can be. C'mon weather, give us a break please!!!