My first tandem flight in 1988 was on a mountain in Southern Calif called Kagel. I started flying hang glider solo in 1990. Since then hang gliding has been my primary interest.
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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