2008 - Day One

Last year Mystic launch would close on fire ban days, this year it won't close on fire ban days, we just have to take the long road up, this will be a huge increase of flyable days.
Oh yeah, Happy New Year
Stories, all true, told by Brett Hardin, paraglider pilot and web designer...
I've flown three times in the last 5 months and that type of deficiency can cause a variety of ailments. One would be that it lessens your power of Observation. Let's use my last flight as an example - a bit of background information first. One of the really nice things about the flying in Bright Australia is that the quality of pilot here is very high. A few days ago I had the pleasure of flying with Bright local and 6 time Australian National Champ, Fred Gungl, and it's great to have someone that can keep up with me (they call this being cheeky in Oz).
I've been in Oz over a week, during which time a virus has been busy using my DNA to spin copies of itself, but today I finally got in the air. Yesterday the sky was pure blue and delicious - big cotton candy marking the lift and a south wind to push pilots out towards the flats. I wasn't feeling up to flying, so I decided to torture myself by turning the radio on. I heard lots of psyched pilots calling climb rates to each other as they went XC. Even the virus inside of me wanted to fly...
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