Gilles Arfeuille <>
writes:

Last week I had the chance to participate to the Wills wing/Blue
Sky scooter tow clinic at Wallaby Ranch. Steve Wendt impressed me being the
scooter towing Master. I tell you it is great to learn from the King. All the
process was showed to us step by step from design to practical use. The design
is cool, and the practical part is lots of fun.



The wind gods obliged us to early starts and late sessions (hopefully I had my
night vision gear, just kidding), and Steve was up for it with a great positive
attitude starting at 7:00 a.m. These changing winds also gave us the chance to
see the limits of scooter towing and its great flexibility.



The learning curve was steep for us the participants to learn how to tow people
but also for people who joined us to increase their skills or even learn from
the start, so that was a real experience.



Steve's technique have great applications, from teaching a beginner to fly to
pilots who have landing problems. Also, I have many paraglider friends who want
to start hang gliding but I find the speed difference between the two kinds of
flying sort of critical safety wise at the beginning of the learning curve (I
personally fly both). Using the scooter tow with the Wills Wing condor will help
them to go through the transition the safe way and have fun just before
continuing on a Falcon and having even more fun (flying is about fun and
passion, isn't it).



Many pilots tend to fly less and give up because they are scared to land. That
is sad and scooter towing can really be the solution. I am back in Colima,
Mexico and a local paraglider pilot has already given me a scooter, so that's a
good start. A great thank you to Steve from Blue Sky and Mike and Rob from Wills
Wing. And for the ones who never been to Wills Wing demo days you must go there
to see and try all these goodies and meet all these great people.