Paul B took the first launch in the K8 and stayed airborne while others did circuits.  His 1:04 flight became the time to beat but no one...

…when we saw Alan flying past the airfield at 1,500ft 4hr 30mins into his 5 hour attempt. We shouldn’t have as he landed an hour later to...

With 55 flights flown during the day our instructors and gliders were kept quite busy. First flight was at 8:48am and the last took off...

With the launching being from the northern end of the airfield we managed to get in about 13 launches before needing to stop to allow...

The good news was that the wheel box clogging cut grass had been cleared from the north end of the field.  The bad news was that grass at...

By late morning the thermals were working well with Duty Instructor Ken Porter reporting 6 knot climbs during his weather check flight so...

Not up to the previous day but some soaring was possible.  However, we probably spent more time clearing wheel boxes which got clogged...

The photo shows the launch point for much of the day.  No shortage of gliders with 4 club gliders in operation and 4 private gliders...

The weather man was spot on this week with Wednesday utter rubbish and Thursday fairly promising.  Always a risk moving from Wednesday...

Bank Holidays can be days when hardly anyone appears to fly, but not this one.  20 people turned out and flew, including   Duty...

Arriving at the club there felt like there was something missing – I then realised there was no film crew.  Just as well as the weather...

I guess folks had been taking notice of the weather forecast as there was quite a modest turnout. Well I hoped they enjoyed their...

Despite an unpromising start the low cloud base and drizzle was forecast to clear so we kept ourselves entertained chatting about field...

First day of flying at Sutton Bank today with many hours flown. With cumulus in abundance and a 10kt  NNE wind we aerotowed  off 02....

With  a moderate Easterly breeze and blue skies the thermals got going quite early. In fact during my weather check flight I had to...

The sun came out to welcome Bert back to the airfield – but this time with a TV crew accompanying him.  In the middle of April we got a...

After lots of flying on Easter Saturday, Sunday and Monday I did think that we may be shorthanded on Wednesday – but, no, not at all.  In...

What’s happening – a bank holiday weekend and we get lots of flying on 3 of the 4 days.  Monday, though, was the best day for flying with...

Sunday turned out to very busy day what with pre-solo training, check flights and annual checks. Although flight times were noticeably...

As Colin predicted Saturday indeed turned out to be a ridge day and many ridge flights were flown. With the good headwind launch heights...