in this show I’ll be getting a taste for some thermal soaring in the warm sunshine, watching the local scout group getting excited about gliding and helping out around the club.

I’ll be learning yet another common-sense lesson delivered in a kind and considerate way from an old hand. I’ll experience my second real cable break - and find out just how long my instructor thinks is ‘a long time to react’. I’ll be getting some negative G (and a grunge shower into the bargain), flying by eye with the altimeter taped over, finding myself in an ‘awkward’ situation and experiencing the thrill of landing long downwind.

Phew.