After the 5th lesson, we decided to take lessons without much break and so far we have managed to take 3 lessons in 3 continuos weekends. Lesson 6 was a bit frustrating but 7th lesson made up for all of it. We took the afternoon class yesterday and the wind was quite strong for us to handle. But our instructor Dave helped us practice a few quick flights from lower hill to get some confidence. Towards the end of the day the wind had relented a bit and we made quite a good progress with some good flights. I was a bit tired from my long hike the day before and Dave helped me a lot in not getting too tired. All in all, it was a great day with lof of improvement in our skills to stay on course. Joy is doing better in landing compared to me - I am making full use of the knee pads by landing on my knees :) Hopefully in the next class we will do a lot better to stay on course and eventually come to the final skill before getting hang1 licence - flare landing!

Joy was very happy with his last flight yesterday - Dave couldn't help commenting on his wide smile :D

It was our fifth lesson of hang gliding and we somehow managed to give 4 months gap between this and the last one. Our techniques got a bit rusty and it felt like we were starting all over again. But we soon managed to get everything polished and were having a lot of fun. We had a new instructor this time, George, instead of our regular instructor Dave, and we were a little bit apprehensive. But he turned out to be so awesome! I am sure he was a comedian in his last life :p

We got more flight time in this lesson thanks to the trust George showed on us. He let Phil, Joy and me take continuous turns while he took two newbies under his wings. Phil had gotten his H1 licence 10 years back and he was back to get it done all over again. Everything came naturally to him and it seemed he didn't forget one single thing. It was nice seeing him fly so smoothly. We three got a lot more flying while George kept an eye on us and kept correcting our mistakes. Joy and I had to be a bit less aggressive to do our flights more smooth. George said aggressiveness is needed at higher altitude. My last flight turned out to be an amazing one thanks to the crazy wind which tossed me sideways. George was happy that I had the presence of mind to use the aggressiveness this time and didn't crash! In fact my landing was also much better than the last flights. Joy also had a great time and we both are looking forward to taking lessons faster this time to get our H1 licence asap.