Tandem Paragliding Photographs

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Kelly and Roxanne, two of my PSU students, ready to fly tandem for the first time:

Launch instruction and practice:
(Photographs courtesy of Kelly Miller and Roxanne Smith.)

Launching:
(Photographs courtesy of Kelly Miller.)

Soaring:

(Photograph courtesy of Joel Donaldson.)

Oceanside, Oregon, beautiful sunshine:

(Photograph courtesy of Kelly Miller.)

Oceanside, Oregon, light fog:
(Photographs courtesy of Paul Andersen.)

Bingen, Columbia River Gorge:
(Photographs courtesy of Stan Harryman and Backflash Video Services.)

My passenger has the controls over Bingen:

Cliffside, Columbia River Gorge:
(Photographs courtesy of Stan Harryman and Backflash Video Services.)

Near the end of a soaring flight at Cliffside, my passenger at the controls:

Tandem launch training practice at Clinton Park, Portland, Oregon:
(Photographs courtesy of Leslie Sawyer.)

Injuries to my tandem training partner:

Here are facial injuries to Leslie, my tandem training partner and an experienced paraglider pilot, after an aborted training launch on Pine Mountain, Oregon. Leslie was a huge help to me in doing my tandem training and without her I may never have achieved my tandem certification. We did several dozen training flights together, plus about eighty practice launches, and had a lot of fun. Leslie, however, sometimes pushed the safety boundaries aggressively. Just before this attempted launch, on a steep and rocky slope, I said that I thought the wind was too cross. Leslie said "No it isn't; let's do it!". The wing came up to the side in the cross wind, and in aborting the launch we started rolling over the rocks. It was a good training lesson for me because I leaned how hard it can be to stop rolling on a steep slope when tied together with your tandem partner.