After more than a year, Laura finally completed her Novice rating. Way to hang in there!

Clif has been coming out a lot lately, and his progress has been great so far: on the last day out he landed him self at the Harvest Dykes with just a few comments from Tonya.

Jeremy has the right stuff: doing full on wing-overs, asymetricals and front tucks – all on his 15th flight! His launches and landing also near perfect. Outstanding!

Peter continues to be a huge asset to my school, with his continuous help and support throughout each day: offering many rides up, student coaching, landing ATC…, but on Sunday he did his first top landing (A- grade) and his first B-stall – well done and thanks!

Laura out did herself with a huge acro show – my tandem passenger was blown away with her Asymetrical and full frontal – well done! Honourable mentions to Chiu for his endless help behind the scenes.

Art was our fearless wind dummy at Hedley and challenged him self numerous times at Iron Mt, not to mention hosting a huge Deimos crew at his place, acting tour guide, cooking meals, washing the dishes…thanks Art!

Tania was challenged today with launching students, some Siv maneuvers (for her self) and still had energy to teach my newest students. Honorable mentions to Andrew for volunteering to be a tandem passenger for our newest Instructor Veronica (even after her "not-so-perfect" take off).

More great flying for all my students, but this week it was Andrew’s turn to shine – completing his first spiral dive and novice rating. Congrats!

A special thank you to Chiu for all of his help this weekend!

Lots of great launches and overall good landings - all the extra practice seems to be working!

Laura had her personal best flights this week both highest (+3500’) and longest flights (plus 2 and half hours), including some nice landings.
Honorable mentions to Claudia for her spot landing, and Peter for helping out at every possible moment.

Outstanding flying from Peter all weekend: he spec’d out at both Woodside and later Bridal, completed his first spiral dive – the final manuever for his novice rating. On top of this, he was more than ready and willing to help guide some students on their maiden flights. Congrats! Honorable mentions to Andrew, Laura and Patti for completing their longest flights ever – I think Patti was almost three hours.

Another brilliant week of flying from Peter. He passed his novice exam, survived my customary Titanic flight, had his first real solo launch with no pilots around, and was as helpful as possible through out the day.

Andrei, although had some interesting collapses this week – managed to jump back on the horse and keep flying. Also, he continues to help the new pilots set up their gear during our busy training sessions all week. Honorable mentions to Peter for solid launches, flying and landings.

It's usual to win the pilot of the week and no fly, but in this case I think most would agree the Samuel worked very hard. Honorable mentions to Shane for his low safe and top landing, and Jeremy for his hard work all week and first solo flight (solid take off and landing - I just need to get him to work on his punctuality).

Andrew had his dream flight today (his second solo ever). About 45 minutes of dreamy soaring conditions, followed by a tricky Big Ears landing. Well done!

On her third solo flight, Laura put together a near perfect launch after a close call on her second solo flight. It takes a strong mind to shake off a close call, but in any case Laura had one of her best launches this weekend. We just need to work on those landings! Honorable mentions to Layne for his most flights in one day.

Peter seems to always be in the spot light this week: either a close call with his harness, his first asymetricals, landing a little too long at Bridal, or his first real reverse launch (at Woodside), but in any case, lots of great progress and lessons learned. Honourable mentions to Andrew for his first solo high flight.

Another tough week with lots of great firsts: Laura did here first solo after six months of training (not really her fault – most of the time that she came out the wind was cross or something weird; Patrick with his help in the LZ and when ever possible; but I think Peter’s flying has been outstanding this week– he came out to almost every practice session, was quick to help out, displayed huge patience, in less that five flights he's had developed a solid forward and reverse launch ,and this weekend logged his first one hour flight! Outstanding!

Lots of stars this week: Andrei with getting his novice rating, first flights from Felix and Peter, Layne with his longest flight ever (3 hours), but I think it was Little Dan’s help at Burnaby Mt and all weekend that was the essential ingredient that keep us all in the air. Thanks Dan!

Huge progress from Wil this week: in just a few days he has flown from the top of Burnaby Mt., and a couple of mini flights while at Whidbey Island! Keep up the good work!

Not much flying out of Patrick these days (due to bad weather), but lots of great effort. This week he spent two days helping me design, build and install the new Bridal Falls LZ sign. Many Thanks – I think it turned out pretty nice!

Zenon blew everyone away with his back-to-back perfect reverse launches – quite impressive for just a dozen flights!

Patrick was our first student (intermediate) to complete his HAGAR and HAM exam - well done.

Toler, since he first signed up, has been to every practice day, has joined us for every flying day, and even the odd special training day – but today he really shined with his first tough launch at Sumas. Congrat’s Toler.