Eric brought out his tandem student couple, Willy and Perry, and we met Jeremy Gofton in the LZ. The five of us drove up, to be joined by Eric Tucker about 45 minutes later.

It was predicted to be southeast all day, and ADDS got it pretty close this time. It was a little more south than Jeremy would have liked, and a little stronger than expected, but perfectly usable.

First to fly was Willy. His birthday gift from Perry was a tandem hang gliding lesson, and Eric delivered a good one. They had a nice launch, immediately popped up about 50 feet over launch, and then cruised up and down the canyon a couple of times. Willy got a chance to fly the glider, and they ended up with about 20 minutes of airtime. I drove down with Perry to bring them back up to launch.

I was set up and tied down, so right after we got back I was able to launch in some nice conditions. No problem getting up or staying up, I managed to get to about 9200 MSL to watch Eric take off with Perry. She got a nice flight as well, briefly over launch and up into the canyon to see the sights, and also got to drive the glider for a while.

I landed after almost 1.5 hours, so I could get packed up and ride back up for the third trip (!).

Jeremy finally found decent conditions at the east PG launch and took off, getting pretty high and flying around for what I think was about 45 minutes. Like all of us he landed in light, switchy conditions, and he did a good job of it.

Eric Tucker had tried to launch before the second tandem, but found it a little too strong so decided to wait for mellower conditions. By the time we arrived for the last time it was 4:30 and Eric T. was *really* ready to go. He had a nice launch and a decent flight, although he wasn't able to get over launch in the mellow, late-day air.

Finally, Eric Smith set up his new Mylar T2 for its test flight, had a good launch as always at around 5 PM, and soared along the ridge without losing any altitude at all. But conditions were weakening, and even with a supership and 30 years of experience he had to bow to the inevitable, landing after 15 minutes or so.

A very long day, I think that's the latest we ever left Miller Canyon. Lots of fun flights, no carnage, a good day all around.

John