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POWERED PARAGLIDING STORIES.Flying at Phil's and monkey butlers in the evening The Purple Pig is annual pre-season meeting of Ontario pilots. We usually meet at Purple Pig restaurant in Aurora north of Toronto about 2 hrs of driving. I thought it may be nice to combine partying with some flying on Sat afternoon. I have contacted Phil and inquired about the conditions of his field and weather it would be OK to come up for flying + sleep over at his place. He said sure so I was anxiously watching the forecast for Sat, March 27. It was unbelievable, the whole week was real crappy but it looked like Sat may be flyable. Sure enough, closer we got to the date I was realizing that we may be very very lucky. On Sat morning I have loaded my new box and headed for Barrie. I had no license plate on the ass of my new box so it was free ride on 407, the local paid highway. When I have arrived at Phil's weather was not the best. Cloud deck was very low but wind is nice and light. We to go for lunch as conditions are supposed to improve as time goes on. After lunch we got to the field. Very gloomy but flyable so we started to set up.
There is Phil with his equipment in background and my Brontes closer to the camera.
Artsy pic...
No problem taking off I peek down and here is Phil's maple leaf Silex glider. Nice eh?
Picture of my self. Enough Andre!
...and this is where we were flying from. Al and Petra's farm. Very nice people. Thanks again for letting us buzz around. Ray showed up with his Sky Cruiser to do some ground handling and Bret with a performance glider that was bitch to inflate and keep overhead.
Phil was totally flying his ass off....
Yap.
Here is Ray with his Sky cruiser and camera man from local TV station. Ray, me and Phil, made the news (CKVR Barrie).
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