16th july 2005 - shiskine

This weekend 3 rockstar guys came over with me to Arran to try out this paragliding malarky. Keith was again on hand to provide the tuition. We were in a small field somewhere up the back of Shiskine. It was fairly flat so no great height was acheived. Also the weather was a bit blustery and the rain came on in the early after noon. But we managed to get a few small hops done, and did some valuable ground handling.

9th July 2005 - Different type of flying!

This was a different day of flying. We went to Prestwick airport where I got to fly a 4 seater airplane, with a frightened Lolly in the back.


I took off from Prestwick Airport and flew North for about 10 minutes until we reached Largs, then turned left and flew over Wee Cumbrae and then headed back south. On the way back I had a good view of Arran across the water and we flew directly over Ardrossan when the boat was in. We then headed back over Saltcoats and home towards Prestwick. I had to wait in line before being allowed to come into land, and it was fairly tricky as there was a crosswind coming into land. But after a few wobbles and some panic noises from Lolly we touched down in one piece! It was awesome, quite similar to driving a car, but it was noisy, paragliding is definitely more peaceful! Total flight time was 30 minutes.