The promise of a north wind was enough to bring out The Duo Discuss, LS3 and an ASW-15 out to play plus the K13 was taken out of the...

Time was running out to complete my instructor renewal checks and so came the message ‘please be early tomorrow’. The day it dawned...

View from the K7 Another excellent November day.  This time with a north wind and some ridge action.  Over half of the flights got into...

Simply an exceptional day for November.  Southampton Uni GC were out in full force introducing some new members to the joys of silent...

After a pretty dismal October, November got off to a good start with a fine turnout from the Wednesday crew.  Although an up-and-down...

They say a picture paints a thousand words so here’s a 10,015 word essay. 20,000 feet toes

Wednesday 23rd October and out come the beany hats and off go the jumpers.  This is not what we have come to expect from October.  Lots...

Weekend of 21st and 22nd maintained the October standard we have come to expect.  Thanks to duty debts Jim G was duty instructor on both...

Having reported all those great stats for last flying year the new year is not going very well so far.  Of 7 potential flying days we...

First flying day of the 2017/18 flying year and a couple of annual checks completed.  Peter E spent most the day on the winch doing winch...

1st October marks the first day of a new flying year and time to start thinking about getting those annual checks out of the way.  Not an...

Been a bit tardy on the blog updates but then there wasn’t much to say about the first 2 days.  Weather did not cooperate on them so no...

A very good day – for those who appreciate cake.  Jonty celebrated his Silver with lardy cake plus there was a large chocolate cake,...

Thanks to everyone who made it possible for me to fly on Saturday – to Colin; who despite discovering the Vega trailer was locked and...

Wellford Park & House. Home to the great British bake-off.  Picture taken from 3,500ft by Tony P What a fantastic day

Just a very quick update to cover last Saturday. Both Martin and Bob converted to the K8 and had great fun no doubt! I’m told that Adrian...

Good day in prospect Turns out the rain that was forecast for Wednesday (with >90% probability) did not materialise.  However, Thursday...

A strange day indeed, when struggling to gain height from 800 ft over Ringo’s farm while swiftly drifting downwind, one’s attention is...

Once upon a time Wednesdays were a gentle affair – some setting to on those jobs that need doing, a little flying and a lot of banter for...

Saturday Well saturady was ok really, a little westerly breeze was a bit annoying and it wasnt a classic sky but it was soarable for a...