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Season End

It looked quite good, and if the turn-out was an indicator, it was going to be great.

As usual Rodger was keen to go , and as usual he was the first to launch and promptly went on glide to the "bomb-out". Once we got Rodger out the way we waited for Jeff to show us how to do it. Which he duly did, latching onto what would be the only lift out.

Subsequently Lisa and Anand launched and although able to maintain for a while, eventually succumbed to the ground suck.

This dissuaded the rest of us leaping off immediately until we gave up and also decided that a glide to the "bomb-out" was the order of the day.

Another Season of intrepid flights (not!) comes to an end.

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