SkySchool's June 2011 Newsletter

We have been very busy over the past few weeks doing a lot of Paramotoring and Paragliding in some unusually warm weather! May got off to a good start when SkySchool MD Alex Ledger sat a private acro course at Lake Garda in Italy with world champion acro pilot Pal Takats. During the course Alex did his first ever tandem Paragliding flight as a passenger on Pal's unique 31m U-Turn Thriller which was a great experience. Footage of this flight and the rest of the course can be seen here.

May turned out to be a good month in Spain and even though the weather was not always perfect, we managed to do plenty of flying, especially at the beach where the sea breeze provided a nice laminar on shire wind making take offs very easy indeed. In the middle of May we headed inland to run a week of Paragliding training at Ager and Organya. The first two days were excellent and all six of us spent over an hour cruising the 15k cliffs at Ager right up until sunset. When the weather changed we decided to head to Organya which also allowed for plenty of flying and for Alex to practice the Acro maneuvers he had learnt with Pal.

We are all now back at Ordis and have just finished Paramotor course 5 which was a success. course 6 started today. The days are getting longer and warmer here and we have two more weeks of paramotor courses to run before we head back to Organya to run another week of Paragliding. The D Day trip has proven to be extremely popular however we still have a few slots available. UK courses kick off on the 9th August back in Mere so anyone keen for some UK flying should check out the website for more details.