Back into Paragliding !

Finally we moved our backsides and went for this season’s first paragliding trip. Had to work the the skills back and we spent the larger part of the Friday and Saturday of this Easter weekend on ground training with our usual Templepilots gang. Manju managed a top down quick flight and managed her first plan and a standup landing. Woohoo ! Way to go babes !!!

The winds were not too good so, I decided to stick with the “kiting” practice. Avi handed me a mean competition wing and, boy isnt that a fast sucker ! Responds to the smallest inputs. I am gonna master that guy in time. At least this time around I was able to reverse kite and get the canopy up and keep it there for a few seconds. The winds were really iffy and that didn’t help one bit either. But on the whole, Yippee ! Ggooood to get the paraglide feel once again !

So much for Paragliding. I did carry my gear along and shot off a few of the folks in their Holi colours and of Foram doin her thing with her new Windtech “Zephyr” wing. I thought that spiderman like logo in the centre of “her kite” was uber cool !

Holi Colours! On the Left is Avi and on the right Ganpat

Madame Anita

Foram kiting her new “Zephyr”

I shot manual exposure after reading the histogram since I was mostly shooting against the light.  Worked pretty well I thought 🙂

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