Lovely scattered cumulus today – about 3/8 – looks beautiful from above and beside 😀 Exit at 10,000 feet in a front loop, held for 5 sec. Emerged on my back, watching plane fly off (it’s still surprisingly close after 5 sec!). Stable practice touch on heading through 9000 feet. […]
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Attempting to live an adventurous life in a nannying age
Tunnel plan
Stability and turns Stable on heading Turns 4×90 L&R Height control Stable in pull position Turns L&R in pull position Mantis position and turns on legs Stable on heading in mantis position Turns 4×90 L&R on arms Turns 4×90 L&R on legs Turns 4×90 L&R on both Height control On […]
Read MoreBodyflight
Just booked 15 min each for me and Beth at Bodyflight during our week at home. Should be fun. Beth gets an intro to body flying; I’ll work on formation skills and try flying on my back before attempting sit flying. Should be a good boost to an otherwise thin […]
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Skydiving, if ever the weather improves A trip home to Cornwall (with a local skydive?) Northolt Summer Ball Week off: skydiving, motorcycling and a spa day :-/ Fast cat sailing at Wildwind, Greece
Read MorePurple Ball
Went to the Defence Academy’s Purple Ball tonight with about 1200 others. Dinner began with trapeze artists and the band of the Royal Marines. Poor weather put off the flying display and the Red Devils. The opera singers during dinner were fabulous and the post-dinner band was pretty good. The […]
Read MoreAh – now I remember
I started skydiving in around 1995 with a two-week RAPS course at Weston on the Green. Fourteen jumps, but I didn’t keep it up. Now I remember why. As we look out on another 8/8 coverage summer day, I can tell you this is worse than sailing.
Read MoreOff-roading in the wet with the BMW off-road skills course
Last Sunday and Monday, I was on BMW’s off-road skills course. It was wet. Which was nice. Wet meant slippery and there was a lot of crashing, from low-speed muppetry, to a proper 50mph off when practising acrobatics. I picked up my XChallenge often: only BMW would think that a […]
Read MoreNot a good day for a skydive
Yet again, it’s a rubbish afternoon for a skydive, with a blanket of low cloud, and it’s not forecast to be good tomorrow. Fortunately, I’m off-road motorcycling Sunday and Monday.
Read MoreA perfect close reach in a Top Cat 18
Turkey 2004. My old mate shows me how it’s done on his first catamaran helming trip.
Read MoreK1200S at Cadwell, Jun 2006
Last summer, I took a track day at Cadwell. What a great circuit: highly 3D with some fast stretches and several bottle checks. A smaller bike might have been a good idea, but where’s the adventure in that? (That’s me, at the front again. I think the instructor was just […]
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