JT AIRTIME

“Disobedience to anyone that has read history, is man’s original virtue” Oscar Wilde

places, i want to fly, places that have been flown, places to contemplate, places to just fly:  LINK below

                        
                                                   Fly it,or Flew it    FLEW or to FLY

Mount Baldy, BC, 2006

50°12.109'N 119° 09.119'W

King Eddy, just below Mount Baldy

Eddy Riviere launches

Eddy, 

                                            KING EDDY LAUNCH,

JT launching at Savona, BC

Dug, Rocket & JT 

behind Ashcroft Manor, BC after flight down from Cornwall Launch.

                                                                                                                                                            Never stop being a kid. Never stop feeling and seeing and being excited with great things like air and engines and sounds of sunlight within you. Wear your little mask if you must to protect you from the world but if you let that kid disappear you are grown up and you are dead.
— Richard Bach               

Dug going for a fly with Jim, Savona, BC

Jim's Rig

Coopers Launch, Lumby, BC

One happy pilot

                               Awesome afternoon in Lumby, Coopers Launch.

"LAUNCH"

Perfect Breeze

Dug prepping for flight

Camping on a little lake by Mt Baldy

Hanging out at Bridal

Free Feet, BC

I fly because it releases my mind from the tyranny of petty things . . .— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Fraser Valley cruising, JT feet

Beautiful Fraser Valley

HAPPY FEET

NEPAL

Over to Pokhara, Nepal. 2006

Sirkot Camp and Launch site during a cross country trek, Nepal. 

             After departure from SIRKOT, cross country flight of 30-40 Km's, crossing three valleys and
             flying down three long ridges. Back to Pokhara via Rangkhola

Beautiful Valleys

                                             Rangkhola back to Pokhara after some great flying.

Flight from SIRKOT to Rangkhola. November 2006

Gaggle in Pokhara

Our abode on the top floor, breakfast as usual in the sun with the singing birds and view of Fishtail. 

Macchapucchre. 

                                          Macchapucchre

Kevin the young Egyptian Vulture

Bradley the Kite

BANDIPUR, Nepal, shot by Aurelie Cottier

                                          Launch on ridge near Bandipur.

                                            More airborne photos by Aurelie

                                         Old Inn in Bandipur

Dug with Bradley 

The road landing by Maya Devi. 

Scott cooling the birds at Maya Devi Village

Dugie catching Bradley in the hills above 

Dug getting suited up to fly with Jamie Messanger

Scott Mason & Jamie prepping for a flight with Bradley the Kite.

Launch above Pokhara

Dug flying with Bradley the Kite. Scott 

Take off from Dicki Danda, hoping to fly to the Green Wall, but didn't make it.

                           OFF TO FRANCE

Prepping for a flight in Chamonix with 

Mike  Fabricius from the UK also glad to get out of all the regulatory BS. 

Plan de L'Aguille Launch. Chamonix, France

Chamonix, looking for a place to land near a cafe, and a glass of wine, hahahhaha. 

    Busy spot Col de la Forclaz. big busy launch site.

Flying up near the Dent de Lanfon, hahahha

Beautiful ragged rocks. 

Taking a course with a great bunch of Frenchmen, tought by David Eyraud. 

No heart attack enroute up, almost a heart attack launching, but a spectacular flight. 


                          The Chief. Squamish, BC

Eddies shot of the welcome site, hahahhaha

Squamish School

                    PEMBERTON, CHEAM & BRIDAL FALLS, BC

An attempt at Mount Cheam, but no cooperating winds on a beautiful Day

Pemberton landing, Beautiful BC.

packing crew, Dug & Zac, who also seem to want to wrestle.

VALLE DE BRAVO, Mexico

   Launch at Pinion

Off to El Pinion, around the Spires, by Three Kings,  behind Lanku, close to Cerao Gordo, then on to the stairs (Escalerrilla), and back to land Boga, Lakeside.
Best XC experience, always leaving me thinking, how was that possible.

Same day, David from Aspen, does the "Bad Kitty"

Boga Boga

THAILAND

Khoa Deng, Petchaburi, Thailand. 

Eddy, and Paul James

  NOODLE GOAL, it was sweet reward after a beautiful flight down range. Fly over the Chinese Graveyard and land in a rice field to get to Noodle.

EBEY, Whidbey Island, WA a little coastal soaring up and down the ridgeline. 

Very Nice, Eddy under Blackstone. 

Obviously Karen intended on landing on the beach, hahahhaha

                                         
                                         Over to Hawaii for a solo flight, nice ridge soar until I stopped paying 
                       attention and got sucked in the venturi, then scrambled for a landing spot       with a little extra passing over the powerlines and just made the beach. hahhaha

Kahana, Oahu, Sept 2008

Paragliding