Skateboardable pool???

As some of You lovely people know i’m still a skateboarder at heart, even at my age of 42…

Found a nice looking pool yesterday while driving down from Kennedy to fetch my clients at the Vallet landing below bar sur loup.

I could not tell if the pool had transitions, but the amoeba shape should need trannis… but from now on i will watch it every time i pass by. This could be it…

No water and no one at home and i will trespass

Skateboard criminal until i die…

This is one sexy pool!!!

Bluebird and no OD. And we had Col de bleyne for our selves!!!

Fantastic! Finally a realy nice day. Weak south east winds and blue sky. Thermals going up at 11.00 and my clients was airborne and flying around. Some did shorter flights and some flew 1.5 hours!

Tarzan had his premier thermic flight!!! And later they all took of again, but for the least experienced it was abit rough. So they landed safely after a short flight and Johan and Tomas stayed up and got a little xc along the Col de bleyne ridge over to Malamaire. Up to 2 hours of airtime!

After this we had landing beer, coffee and icecream.

The group got 4 flights today and everyone seamed very happy!!! So am I! A very nice day. Good thermals, happy people!

Tonight i stay at home to sort “important” papers and take care of washed clothes…

The day of 007 roads and the revenge of Tarzan…

Early morning and almost blue sky. Some clouds. It looked realy good. At around 9ish the clouds came in from northwest… And the cloudbase sank low… A quick trip up towards CDB was stopped by much to low base. Back down the 007 road again.

We went for the market in Pre du lac and also had a coffe, then straight up to Kennedy launch and had a little flight. Thomas and Johan got about an halfhour. Not much but still, flying! And flying over Bar sur loup is always nice and scenic. Everyone got to the landing, even Tarzan.

Later we all went back to Greolieres for an afternoon flight. The clouds were low and not letting the sun shine through, not much going up. But around half an hour for the ones that struggled the longest!And today Tarzan decided to land on the main landing field. Very nice of him. Even Dav Dagault(ozone designer) asked me who had landed a Geo2 in a tree near main landing yesterday. Hmm. Will have to make better landing briefing in the future…;-)

In the evening we went for Fasan diner at St Hubert, it turned in to a 4 course meal, i had to stop after 3!   I felt pregnant. Or i think this might be the feeling :-). Good fun was had. Friendly people, Alain and his lovely wife!

Now it’s a clear sky with stars, soo we sleep early and hope for good weather tomorrow :-). Bring on the thermals!!!

Back to normal meteo!!!

Yesterday evening we had some fantastic wild boar at St Huberts in Greolieres!!! Marvelous!

And today i dropped last weeks gang on the airport and got the new gang;-). We drove back via Gourdon were alot of pilots were thermaling. We had lunch and a quick rest and gathering of kits and then up to take off.

The local club had a Marche en Vol comp today. Walk from Greolieres le neige to 700 takeoff, fly to Coursegoules and back…

It was a grey sky. But with silk smooth conditions. Everyone in the air for about 45 minutes and i then ordered toplandings! And with a little help from me, everyone landed safely on 300 take off. Tomas and Bengt did their first ever ones… What a start of the week!!!

Excellent!!! Then we flew down for a rest because tonight is wine and cheese evening at my place…

Tomas Roos did not seam to like the Greolieres landing soo he choosed another alternative. A small tree in the slope above the landing field. He’s ok. And so is his kit… I look forward to the explanation for this odd move ;-).

Photo by Johan Nordenfeldt. Who caught the moment from the air!

The day of tandem kings, OD and Daube de sanglier…

Early starts at Col de bleyne in bluebird sky. Looking good. 2 warmup flights for my crew. Practise spot landings. Even i had a short playflight. Training on my deepstalls is No1 on my menu. I dream of doing nice helis

Also today Marcus King did his first tandem flight. Nice takeoff Kingy!!! Congratulations.

And then altocumulus cover the sky!!! But still cumulus clouds are building up. hmm :-(. Realy bad luck. Though it did not stop us from getting 4 sweet flights before the swedish and norwegians had to pull big ears and speedbar to get down… No worries but for shure no more flying today.

But anyway we made the most out of the week. And we had lots of fun! 15 flights on 5 different sites in a week! I think my low airtime pilots have learned quite alot!

Greolieres in strong conditions. Close but no cigar…

Meet up with Pierre Verrier at 10 o’clock. Gave my group the appropriate instructions on how to land on the massive landing field of Greolieres. It was later obvious that i need stronger words, and fewer…

However the sun was shining and we had an early flight from 300, and i stayed on takeoff. Thomas took “care” of the posse on landing. The outcome being slightly different from what i had expected… again.

Once the Swedish posse arrived on takeoff again it was starting to be good:-) soo after another landing briefing all of them went into the sky. And up… and up. Clouds were building fast. And lift was easy to “find”. I guided my clients towards Cipieres. Into sinkier areas. Now a problem occured. Thomas,(landing help) was in orbit :-). And for me to get to landing fast is usually not a problem. But time was too short.

This is were Lisa Jönsson(experienced in helping swedish punters to landings) jumps in and takes control of the by now rather widely outspread swedish posse! Thank U lisa!!! Everyone landed safely, even myself ;-).

So another day in Alpes maritimes is to an end. Well not quite, Duracell Johan wants more, and at 17.30 he wants to walk up to 300 for a TTB. In wet conditions… Westerly winds in village. Explaning is without reciver? Soo i drive to CDB with Johan and Anders. NNW wind on takeoff, just like i tried to tell them earlier, so we drive home. Atleast a sanglier ran infront of the van

All in all a good day, if a tad bit short, I’m now sipping a Caol Ila and resting. Tomorrow we go again

Magne and Johan no longer xc virgins…

Well meteo looked good for today so i planed to go to Col de bleyne. We got there early and had a couple of weak thermal flights, Anders did a very low save with his Nokia mojo that was good to see!

Then it got abit strong on take off but weakend of and went perfect until we got to takeoff again.

Thomas and Johan were the first to thermal up and it looked sweet, after them Magne and Andreas also got high. Andreas had forgotten to recharge his battery for vario and so he was left behind… Anders, Anders and Fredrik flew at CDB for awhile. Had their own little spotlanding contest…

Thomas, Johan and Magne all flew over to the plateau before Cheiron and landed next to Anca. Just as we planed! Andreas stayed at CDB and then under my radio assistance, flew to Catellaras castle and back to landing! After a little more than an hour of airtime. After this flight the clouds built rather quick. We drove back to Greolieres for lunch at Barricade! And getting served by the Barricade angel made everyone happy and tired. Afternoon nap was wanted.

Afternoon weather with rain and low clouds and sunshine… but no more flying today. Tonight we search for Daube de Sanglier…

Yesterday…

We started the day with a flight from Cavalliore, walking up and flying down, with some thermals over Gourdon! After a quick coffe the main Gourdon takeoff was our misson. Though i had serious problems keeping my glider above me while groundhandling so nobody flew!

20 minutes later Ascendance arrive and hucks students off… i must be getting old ;-). It got ok for 10 minutes and then the clouds got huge and the wind turned towards west, so i took off:-)

It was crap so i toplanded and packed up and off we went for an evening flight at Roquebrune. When we got there it was good, so i drove down to the beach. Standing on the beach it starts to rain. Rain hard…

So i drive to takeoff, almost, and then it’s on again so i drive down to the beach again… All in my group fly to the beach, have beers and a bath! Everyone was happy!

But we need food! So i drive to Greolieres for a pizza at Barricade. 1 hour and 10 minutes from Beach to Food.

Lots of people at barricade, so we had a good diner. But time caught up with us. Sleep was needed. It was a long and pretty ok day.

Cavalliore, Gourdon, Roquebrune and Barricade all in one day…

Nice day, lots of fun and some good flying! More update tomorrow. to tired now. Loads of pictures tomorrow. I promise…

Sleep sweet dreams

The ultimate guide to safe takeoffs…

Paragliders are just like cars.

They have brakes that can be used when needed.

If we need to use the breaks a little, we use the breaks a little, if we need alot of break we use alot of break!

Simple! or not…

If U are fluent in swedish U might enjoy, bernalt.se/nice.

Anyway we flew at Col de bleyne today. Mainly top to bottoms. After 2 flights northwind stopped us. And then the rain! Donnerswetter!!!

And the unstable weather seams to stay around. I will do my very best to give my guests as much flying as possible but this bad weather is not making it easy at all!

I think we will fly Gourdon tomorrow. Fingers crossed…:-)