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Powered Paragliding Ontario - Paramotor PPG lessons - ground school courseGround school with Chris and Rob - Apr 1/04 - Day one. 8 am. Ready to go.
Hands on with the paraglider.
Flight simulator.
Since weather was crap we have spent all day indoors and completed preparatory ground school and regular ground school as well. Full day - 8 am until 5 pm with 1 hour for lunch. Today - windy and rainy. Bummer. May do some ground handling late afternoon... PPG course with Chris and Rob - "Indoor Slavery" - Apr 2/04 - Day two. Weather is still absolute write off. Windy and drizzle. I have secured indoor location to practice forward inflations. I would describe this as the "Indoor Slavery". 3 hours of continuous forward inflations, me helping with the hand tow line. Got my work out today.... Awesome progress. Both Rob and Chris can now inflate and control the glider during take off run. Just a few things to fine tune and we are ready for the first solo. Good work guys. When you come to Powered Paragliding Ontario for training you will never be stuck with nothing to do. I will keep you learning and progressing as I know your time is valuable. I will take go extra mile to make sure you are getting most out of your time spent here... Stay tuned for report from Saturday training.
Apr 3/04 PPG course with Chris and Rob - Outdoor inflations - Apr 3/04 - Day three. Bad news again. The weather is crap. It is raining again. We write the morning off. I tell Rob and Chris to call me at noon to see if anything changes. All weather forecasts say that rain will stop at noon. Wind forecast is perfect. Only if the ground was not soaked. Grass is wet, mud everywhere...OK Andre think, where can we go? Under some bridge...tunnel? How about some place with tall grass. Then the gliders will rest on top of the grass and not in mud. Got it! There is dump near Brock University that was just recently converted into natural conservation and they do not cut grass on top of it. That will be perfect. When Rob and Chris call I tell them our plan for the afternoon. We practice forward inflations and after couple of hours both Rob and Chris are ready for hand tows. The wind is around 20 km/h and steady perfect for hand tow flights. Chris got about 6 flights in. Ranging from 4 to 20 ft high each lasting about 20 sec. Rob had a bit smaller glider for his weight so his altitude did not exceeded 8 ft and his flights were also bit shorter. After 3 hrs of work all grass small or tall was dry so we headed to Bieda's for flight demo and more ground handling. I got my self ready, inflated and somehow lines got caught on top of my cage which totally put me off balance and made ma fall backward. AS I was falling I managed to turn and leap forward and do nice belly flop as not hit ground with my prop or cage but no luck. One blade busted beyond repair and couple of nicks in new cage. GRRRRR. Great example for my students??!! Oh well not much I can do now. I have replaced the blade. Taped end of the cadge where the plastic coupling broke and went for another try. This time I was off no problem. After I landed we did another hour of inflations and at the end both Rob and Chris were in control of their forward inflations and able to run with the glider inflated overhead. Next step is to strap engine on, get used to the extra weight once done they are ready to fly....
Apr 4/04 PPG course with Chris and Rob - Day 4 - too windy, no training today
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