the Sky is our playground –
To be able to travel to
exotic locations on our splendid earth and to fly there with our colourful
wings is the stuff dreams are made of.
These past monsoon months
templepilots has been terribly busy doing just that.
From nervous pilots before
their first solo flights to honing flying skills over the Kamshet skies to
soaring over the lush and spectacular landscape of the Yelagiri hills, flying
for hours leisurely by the seaside in Bali, to learning to thermal in the
mighty and majestic Himalayas…this journey for
us has been magical.
For me what is most
fascinating and rewarding has been the personal journeys of pilots who have
surprised and surpassed themselves.
To be with them, to laugh
and to share, to learn and to teach, to party and to play together with our
pilots who are now such good friends, fills me and my team with immense
enthusiasm to look forward to a brand new season ahead.
We at templepilots welcome
to the freedom of the skies! We look forward to the beginning of a new journey
with new joys and new thrills.
the Sky is yours,
avi
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Seated in Kanyakumari Express, having our morning chai, passing by fields of sunflowers, bouldered mountains, we're all enjoying a romance only a train journey can bring! Jokes and talks of flying - yes, the real anticipation of flying at Yelagiri has begun!!
Agnes, Gopal and Arunevi had made fantastic arrangements for our pick-up and stay. After a rested night, we woke up to yummy hot south indian breakfast and set out to the flying site at 9.30a.m.
The winds were not too strong and clearly thermic conditions. Anita inaugurated the flying festival with her first flight of the day. The rest of the Temple Pilots team followed with great flights too. Parshu in his blue zulu flew high above all the pilots. Vikash had a bumpy flight and we also had happy pilots who inaugurated their new gliders - Bolero 3, Karthik & Naren. Samson enjoyed a short and sweet flight and Jamsheed too enjoyed a good flying after a long year.
Avi test flew Naren's gllider and enjoyed a real long flight of 2 hours plus. Karthik enjoyed a tandem with Ganpat as he was flying after a long time and needed to refresh his skills.
We all connected at the landing area along with other pilots. A must mention that the pick-ups and drops were cleverly timed. There is nothing like making new friends sharing the sky with you.
We were all invited to a formal event where the collector and other officials officially began the festival. Which the pilots made it informal by clapping out loud and having fun just being themselves.
The cloud build up and the slight drizzle made it evident that there would be no more flying for the day. We headed back to the resort to get ready for the evening event and dinner. The festivities had clearly begun and we had so much to look forward to in just a few days!
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YELAGIRI – DAY1
Avi, Priti,Ganpat and I arrived last night by train. Go down at the now familiar‘Jolarpeth station’. The entire team (TJ, Pankaj, Parshya, Vikash) with Narenand Samson had come to pick us up. They had left the earlier day by road andhad a super time driving down to Yelagiri. They did it in 20 hours…from Kamshetto Yelagiri a total of 1111kms.
We arrived atSaral Inn, it is a very typical pilots haunt, easy on the pocket, basic andclean, and most important we had ample space for all the gliders right next toour rooms. We were situated just a little ahead of the market area from wherewe can turn in to the road that takes you to Ramkrishna site.
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