Paul Voight at Fly High <<flyhigh>>
sends these remarks about his landing clinic:

The landing clinic was fantastic, I just wish the weather on
Sunday had been flyable but Ryan made up for it with a stockpile of landing
videos and excellent guided discussion. You have GOT to get into this if the
Voights put this together again. The combination of Paul up on launch and Ryan
videoing down in the LZ was fantastic; the combined knowledge of these two is
just amazing. We actually got a low wind takeoff clinic out of the deal!

Ryan didn't just video our landings and then talk us through them, he was
prepared for the discussion portion of the clinic with a large stock of landing
videos that emphasized the points he was making. The combination of seeing your
own issues on landing and then seeing a similar issue during another landing
that didn't work out so well was very powerful, sometimes painfully so!

I got to launch bright and early, figuring I would be the first person there but
no! Brian V was all ready to go and camped out under his glider. Soon Ron and
Andy then Brian H, Kenny and Ricardo arrived. We set up on a beautiful morning
and got a quick briefing from Paul then queued up on the north launch. There
were very weak NE cycles but mostly just dead calm morning air. Paul throw a
smoke grenade to the lip of the launch and the smoke just accumulated right
there with no real noticeable movement. Kenny joked behind me "You wanted a
cloud dive Lindsey, there it is!" LOL!

The launch could have been better but that new U2-160 pulled me out-a-there. I
thought the landing was one of my better ones, but Ryan showed me the error of
my ways. My approach took me too close to the trees and my feet swung forward
during the flare emphasizing the impact. I knew I had flown close to the trees,
but I had no idea about the feet thing until he showed it to me on video. Then
he showed me a landing where the pilot flared way early with feet coming forward
bringing the nose down HARD!!!! I'm not sure how I'm going to fix that problem
but at least I know about it now.

We all flew, we all talked and I think we all learned a lot. I'm very glad I did
it and highly recommend it if it comes along again.

Lindsey Stay AWAY from the TREES! Trees are BAD!

This is something I've been looking for in HG. Lil & I ski more than we HG (she
doesn't even tandem any more), but we do take a ski lesson at least once a year.
We get older, we get slower, our equipment changes and our technique
deteriorates. What's more we don't necessarily know it's happening. Even though
we get a lot of informal mentoring from each other and from friends, a real
critical look from a professional is well worth the expense. It's keeping us on
our goal to ski one day for every year we are old and at least 10,000 vertical
feet more each year than the last. By cleaning up our act every year, we're open
to new challenges every year.

I've seen lots of HG clinics that offer something new, but this is the first
time I've seen a formal HG program to fix/improve old skills and remove
developing bad habits. This was a landing clinic. It improved my launch. This
was a landing clinic. It included a discussion about adjusting your harness to
make your landings better. This was a landing clinic. It included a whole lot
about the setup for the landing. And, it was a landing clinic.

With two pros and a room full of pilots analyzing your landing, it's real easy
to find things that you're doing that you didn't think you were doing. It's also
easy to spot things that you aren't doing or that you're doing at the wrong
time. This wasn't one of those restatements of the obvious set-up, aim for your
goal, fly there, flare things. It included how to get that done each step of the
way, an analysis of how you were doing it relative to the ideal, and what you
could do to improve. It also included options to suit your personal preferences
or conditions.

My time and money was very well spent.

Jim

I agree… I've spent most of my flying career a few hours south, and except for
a one-time seminar by Greg Dewolf, they've got nothing like this. Pin point
precision via frame by frame analysis. If this becomes an annual event, expect
people from all over to come by: I'll be advertising for it. Brian