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How many hours and number of flights, and what kind of experience did you have before you came on the 2003 Brazil trip?

About 130 hours, lots of flights. As for experience before the 2003 Brazil trip, really only one 'proper' XC season. The season before that involved some guided XCs in Europe, flops over the back in the UK, and one lucky flight in the UK of 27km under convergence from Parlick.

How many hours and number of flights, and what kind of experience did you have before you came on the trip?
I had approximately 27 hours before I came on the trip.
As well as some local (UK)flying, I had some experience on a few guided trips. I went to Tenerife in the Canary Islands once, with Sussex Hang Gliding & Paragliding, and Piedrahita in Spain twice, with Steve Ham as our guide.

How many hours and number of flights and what kind of experience did you have before you came on the trip?

24hrs flying time prior to Brazil. Don't know how many flights prior to

Brazil (I dont have my log book with me now!) but many.

Experience in Tenerife, Piedrahita (twice), Wales (twice) and local, with some thermalling in Piedrahita

Best XC prior to Brazil was 16ks in Piedrahita.

What flying experience did you have before you came on the trip?
90 hours and toooooo many little top to bottoms. Minimal experience in UK, 7 weeks in Spain and Mexico.
My longest XC was 25 Km in Mexico Jan 2003 – just 2 weeks before the Brazil trip! Longest flight time was 3 hours at Palo Marret, Spain, Feb 2001.

The 2003 Brazil trip is like a dream that feels like yesterday, but two weeks of tread-mill have passed. However I was truly pleased with the trip and grateful for everything you did to accomplish it. I have answered your Pilot Feedback questions below, and I really mean everything I have written.

How many hours and number of flights, and what kind of experience did you have before you came on the trip?

I had around 90 Hours airtime, flown on 110 days, so say around 150 flights(?).

To sum up my experience: 2 Hours Olu Deniz, Turkey (SIV); 6 Hours Chamonix, France (top 2 bottoms); 14 Hours (cliff-soaring south of Sydney, Australia); 5 Hours Manilla, Australia (top to bottoms + some XC – 40Km); the rest at various locations in the UK(mostly Southern Hang Gliding Club), mostly ridge-soaring with some thermalling and about 8Km XC.

How many hours and number of flights, and what kind of flying experience did you have before you came on the trip?

11 hours 25 mins and 60 flights, including top to bottoms in UK. In the UK, my flying was mostly ridge soaring with a little thermalling over the top of Caburn (which I do remember being 'top of the stack' for a bit!)

Flybubble are a superb team. Their organisation was very concise and thorough. It was absolutely right. Flybubble's site and XC flight guidance was excellent. The group discussions were very useful indeed. I enjoyed it enormously, particularly the flying.