SoaringNZ Issue 21

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GLIDING ADVENTURES INT The Youth Soaring Development Camp created some amazing opportunities for those attending to push our boundaries and develop our soaring skills. Given the access to high performance two seaters and highly experienced soaring pilots as instructors, we were able to really learn heaps.

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April 2011

On day four of the camp, Alex and I both got struck by what we called ‘the lucky stick’. We would be flying with two special pilots. Pilots we have the utmost respect for, as they have thousands of hours experience soaring the Alps from Omarama. I was set to go flying with Gavin Wills and Alex would be flying with Justin Wills. We knew we were in for a great day as we had looked at the weather the night before and saw it was going to be another fantastic thermal


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