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Dawn Patrol
The last two days I have eschewed my ‘new’ habit of cycling to work in favour of a much earlier start, but a greater reward: powered paraglider “Dawn Patrols”. Keith Pickersgill of Xplorer PPG invited me to join them in flying from Kreeftebaai just south of Melkbosstrand on Monday at 05h15 (just in time to [...]
Some hang-gliding…
It’s been a very busy time over the last few months (as witnessed by the emptiness of my blog archive!), but I have managed to get in a little dying to clear the mind. Counterintuitively, Winter is an awesome time of the year to fly in Cape Town, and having the option of picking either [...]
Gratuitous flying
Apologies to people reading this who are not paraglider or hang-glider pilots… it may not make much sense (but then again, does your life make sense if you’re not a free-flying pilot? Think about it…) I was blessed with an actual day off today, and even more fortuitously one on which my wife is stuck [...]
Sutherland Paragliding 2010
The paragliding club has just announced the traditional winter flyaway to Sutherland for the last weekend in May – I’m now furiously hoping my new roster will allow me to attend. Last year we resurrected the tradition, traveling to SA’s highest and coldest town for the weekend and flying from the spectacular but remote Ouberg [...]
Powered Hang Gliding
Let me see, the short story: Even though I have been paragliding for quite some time, I did a hang-gliding course back in 2009 because, well, it looked like fun and I had always wanted to try it. This year my instructor posted some pictures of his newest creation – a super-light-weight powered hang-glider (PHG) [...]
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