“So low” at the start of the day as cloud base got lower; “solo” at the end of the day. The day started with an easterly and sunshine...

A thoroughly enjoyable day yesterday as we managed to get in 53 flights totalling over 32 hours! Many private gliders were rigged and...

The good bits – lots of launches, not a westerly, lots of cake.  The bad bits – bugger all lift.  If only Thursday had come a day early....

I did get accused of bringing Wednesday’s westerly’s to a Sunday.  At least I didn’t bring the rain as Richard had done the day before. ...

Last day of the flying week and the 3 rigged private gliders fettled and packed away – that’s how good it looked.  Paul B was first solo...

…fly over the DCFI’s workplace at lunchtime! – Steve!!!

Another good day at Rivar. By late morning the blue was replaced with fluffy white clouds and some great climbs were on offer. With...

Was glorious We flew – lots! Special thanks to Nigel and Richard for flying the numerous Trial lessons and Ken for winching all day....

Nice day’s flying at the club today, only 16 launches but some note worthy achievements. After the necessary check flights both Alan...

I was reminded that there are things in life (well, flying from Rivar Hill) worse than westerly’s – easterly’s!  The forecasts I had seen...

Back to “normal” – tricky westerly.  It was a day of two, contrasting, halves.  8/8 cloud cover in the morning with cloud base varying...

Amazing – not a westerly.  Well, not at first.  A gentle northerly, with a touch of west, backing to a light westerly by late...

The day looked promising and the first flight departed at 11.15 am.The caravan was stocked with a plethora of edible goodies namely...

I guess most members had looked at the forecast winds and gave it a miss.  Members were pretty thin on the ground but the TLs just kept...

After working out which end to fly from (and it wasn’t the one I chose first, sorry about that) we settled into a good thermic day with...

At last, we broke the link between days I fly and westerly’s (although it did veer westerly as the day progressed).  With the modest...

Saturday showed the benefit of looking at forecasts and not simply peeling back the curtain, cracking an eyelid towards the heavens and...

With 8/8ths low cover and drizzle and, yet again, another westerly the prospects for flying did not look good.  This was reflected in the...

the day promised to be soarable and so it turned out.when I arrived on site four s.u.g.c. members had turned up and there were four trial...

Another July day and yet another cross-wind and mainly circuits.  Early on (launches 3 and 4) Paul P & Rob J in one K13 and Tony P and...