Took EP student Gintaras Jakutis out to Agnew's West around lunchtime when it looked as if the showers might stay away and the wind remained light. Arriving there, we found the wind spot on and around 7-8mph - just nice. After the usual thorough daily inspection, GT (as he is known) got plenty of practice in at reverse inflations and turn for launch as well as repeated pre-flight checks.
There was a lot of towering Cu clouds around and it wasn't long before the wind became gusty and variable in direction although overall wind strength never got above 12mph but momentarily fell to 2 in lulls. GT still managed to control the wing in the gusts but then the wind swung round to the NW and stayed there as some light spots of rain arrived. After some discussion on various items of paragliding theory, we called it a day.
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