We ended up with a group of 8 pilots drawn from four of the five clubs in scotland staying in Florimontane (rather compact but cheap and very handy for Perroix). Cyrille from Flyeo was our instructor.
After some lovely flying on the afternoon of the arrival day, we had a shocking weather week. However, Flyeo were great and still got us 7 or 8 flights spread over five days rather than the usual 9 or 10 flights over 3 days. The filming by Flyeo wasn't quite up to the high standard of last year and we lost the film of a couple of days of manoeuvres due to camera faults.
It was really good fun to see all our group progress quite fast through the manoeuvres. One group member who had been talking about being worried about blacking out in spiral dives a lot before the course started made me laugh on the last day when he was complaining that with a 50% collapse held in and leaning full over to the collapsed side his canopy wasn't winding into auto-rotation as fast as he wanted.
However, just as in the first course, one of the things that impressed me the most was the amount we all learned about the subtle timing of inputs needed for the simplest of exercises. All the french instructors are accomplished acro pilots and that definitely shows.
So how did I get on stalling the zeroneuf? Judge for yourself from the video evidence :)
For those less interested in stalls and more in controlling the glider here is Fabien coaching one of the Irish guys who were out the week before us to do wingovers and search for the spin point while thermalling - both very valuable exercises.
