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June Training

Week 1 and 2

Josh Launchig and soaring to the spot, Andy with Clip board waiting at the bottom

une training is four days a week through out June for allnew instructors. At 8 am welearn techniques for teaching

and ying and at the same

time we’re being scored asindividuals and as teams. Training is led by Andy andthere are about 12 students.Week 1: We learned how todouble team and attemptedto single teamsand bag stu-dents. The nextday we basicsof rigde soaringsand dunes.Which includ-ed launchingsideways andlanding in amarked cor-

We Learn how to set up and care for Eaglets,this one appears to have bent keel but it’s just set up wrong

The crewZach Launching and Team members Joshand Jo watching p.2

ridor for points. The Next day was the same ex-cept for we we’respot landing.Everyone wasdoing very well.Every Satur-day morning is“Eaglet Wars”and all instruc-tors compete in

ying contests.

The First Satu-rady the winds were north eastand good forlaunching off the main dune. A very large points board was

drawn out in the sand and basically who ever could y the

furthest and land at the top of the board got the most points.We had to crab across the ridge the best we could beforeturning out and heading for the landing. It was hard but tons

of fun. Flying Eaglets isn’t like ying any other Hang gliderbut I’m starting to like them. They’ve been built specically

for Jockey’s Ridge and are excellent for teaching students.

K-T Getting in last Flights before

frst class hikes up the hill

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