Quicksilver MX Microlights,

A wonderful way to fly.

A great way to go fishing too..

I had waited all afternoon in anticipation of our microlight trip across to the west coast. Graham, my instructor, would be flying in his MX II and I would be going with Tony's Quicksilver MX I. It had been calm but sunny all day, and I'd already spent an hour or so practicing my landings during the thermals. By 4:30 the clouds drifted in the heat had gone, so we gassed up and headed on a mission to acquire dinner....

I followed Graham out, we flew over the broken hill sides of Niake and across the farmlands at about a fifteen hundred feet. Needless to say the views below me are wondrous and my feeling of exhilaration is always present during flight. All to soon the coast line was below us. Graham flew out over the water and found a pod of whales to watch. I was not so keen to go beyond the safety of the coastline so I descend down to 950 feet. From the cliffs it's a gentle glide to the long black sanded beach below.
We joined up again and both cruised along the beach a way's at about 10 feet above the sand. We brought ourselves to land at the far northern end by the rocks. It was mussels we've come for and mussels we certainly got! Huge man, I'd never seen them so plentiful and fat.

Flying with friends is a special thing