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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 [...]
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Also tagged aviation, dawn patrol, powered paragliding, PPG, ross hofmeyr
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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 [...]
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Also tagged adam west, cross country, hang-gliding, hangglider, kommetjie, little lion's head, llandudno, niel marx, paraglider, ross hofmeyr, signal hill, voidhawk, winter
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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 [...]
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Also tagged aviation, bmw dakar, flyaway, motorcycling, overberg paragliding club, sutherland
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