iParaglide Flight Club - Yaletown Brew Pub Pilots Gathering Aug.13/10

Great time last night at the Yaletown Brew Pub.

Lots of great paragliding stories and other good laughs.   

Later on we ended up learning how to do some "Top Gun" drinking with ???, F18 Hornet pilot for the ??? Armed forces.   The "AFTERBURNER" drinking ritual involved:

1. holding Sambuca in your mouth

2. dipping your finger in some

3. lighting your finger on fire 

4. using your lit finger to light your mouth on fire

5. having someone sprinkle cinnamon from on top - creating fireworks

Ouuch!!!

??? is headed back to ???.  

It was a pleasure coaching him during his stay with us for our iParaglide Top Gun Paragliding Flight School -  9 day P2 HPAC Novice Paraglider total immersion -  we ended up doing it in only 7!  He stole the show over the last few days under ground-to-air-radio. We were able to coach him to engage thermals and wind it up to cloud base repeatedly, skying out the locals, on only his 12th paraglider flight!  He had multi-hour thermalling flights including a 2.5 hour flight which we cut short only to get him 6 flights per day over his last two paragliding training days, to accommodate his tight schedule.    

Next Flight Club - 19:30 Fri. Oct.1 -  We'll reserve a section in the restaurant section to see how we like it on that side...

Thanks to all the great paragliding pilots and friends that came down!