Paragliding - What a ‘Disasterous’ outing..
Monday, July 24th, 2006Yeap, it’s correct..it’s disasterous but I’m still fine coz nothing happened!! Exactly, nothing happened!!
It started on the wrong side from the very beginning. We were supposed to meet in RMC at 8am but due to some marathon going on, some of the members got stuck in KL due to road closer. Next, when we reach Banting, it started to rain! Nothing could go worse from there. Ok fine, we watched the video in the meanwhile. Sun was shining brightly when we finished the video. Yippee..I thought, but when we were up at the hill..all we got was wind, wind, wind and more wind. There’s no way we could paraglide in this weather. So we waited and waited and waited under the sun until some of us got hungry and went out for lunch. About an hour of waiting, the wind finally got calm and yes we could paraglide finally! There were 7 of us and there were some others from dunno where, so the instructor can’t fly tandem with all of us. Arrangement wasn’t done quite what we thought could have been better. So only 3 of us got to do the tandem flight. Not to mention that there was no more wind after that so the remaining 4 have to decide whether to do it again the next day or sometime in the future. I decided not to go the next day so that the others could carry on with their solo flight (ahem..so good of me..ahhaha..).
That’s the ‘disasterous’ paragliding that I almost got myself into on Saturday. Will definitely fly one day!!