2.5 hrs flight at Cape Lookout 3/30/17
Today's kickass 15 to 20 MPH NW winds at Cape Lookout drew in six hangs (Ray, Kory, Mark A, Steve, Gabe and myself) and maybe half a dozen para pilots. Most of us had a great flights including 4-5 paragliders. Low Tide was at 9:45am so if you got off too late, good luck in finding a dry beach to land. I arrived at 9:15am and l'm the first one to launched at 10:00am. Got 2.5 hours of enjoyable air time and landed at beach next to the North side of Cape Lookout camp ground. Topped out 2300ft AGL. I did consider at one point to follow Ray and Kory to the south (behind the Cape) where there's more beach to land. They landed at TDM, which was a better choice for rigid wings since there wasn't much beach on the north side to land from 12:30 to 5:30pm. l'm back to launch at 5:35pm and winds was much calmer. Approx 8-10mph NW. Tide is starting to go down and too bad that everybody left. Only few eagles soaring above launch. It should be good to get a sunset flight right now.
5:39pm
Gabe didn't come back so l left at 6:00pm. Pgs Mark Sanzone, Sargent and Dirk came back to get a sunset flight right before I leave. They are probably still soaring right now.
7:40pm
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