Day 9 - Lost Board
A reasonable flight today. Thay makes one per day for this week and I have back-seated about another 7. I have one more flight in the single engine warrior before I move onto the sim and the Seneca.
There are 4 of us on the Modular course. A good crowd. Gareth, Jamie, Sarah and myself. As far as I know we are the only modular students in the college of about 120 total. All the rest are "ab initio". A lot have literally a handful of hours and I have spoken to two that have never flown at all. How crazy is that? How can you invest so much time and money in something if you haven't even tried it to see whether you like it or not?
Jerez motor racing circuit is fairly near the college. Some of the Formula 1 teams are testing at the Jerez track at the moment and they are so loud that you can hear them from the college and even sometimes over the noise of the plane engine when you fly over the top.
I had a couple of hours before darkness today so hired a car and went down the beach. Barely worth it in the underpowered conditions. I went for one more run before darkness, dropped the kite, suffered 5th line problems and by the time I had body dragged back ashore, it was dark and I had lost my kiteboard. I spent 2 hours looking up and down the beach in the darkness. The definition of optimism really as I lost it well out the back with a strong cross shore current and an outgoing tide. Need to find a replacement. Annoying, as I liked that board but in the grand scheme of things not too bad.
There are 4 of us on the Modular course. A good crowd. Gareth, Jamie, Sarah and myself. As far as I know we are the only modular students in the college of about 120 total. All the rest are "ab initio". A lot have literally a handful of hours and I have spoken to two that have never flown at all. How crazy is that? How can you invest so much time and money in something if you haven't even tried it to see whether you like it or not?
Jerez motor racing circuit is fairly near the college. Some of the Formula 1 teams are testing at the Jerez track at the moment and they are so loud that you can hear them from the college and even sometimes over the noise of the plane engine when you fly over the top.
I had a couple of hours before darkness today so hired a car and went down the beach. Barely worth it in the underpowered conditions. I went for one more run before darkness, dropped the kite, suffered 5th line problems and by the time I had body dragged back ashore, it was dark and I had lost my kiteboard. I spent 2 hours looking up and down the beach in the darkness. The definition of optimism really as I lost it well out the back with a strong cross shore current and an outgoing tide. Need to find a replacement. Annoying, as I liked that board but in the grand scheme of things not too bad.
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