Colin’s post mentioned “Bob’s brief sojourn ‘on top’” so here’s one of the photo’s from Bob (spot the halo).  Cloudbase at 700′ Bob...

A beautiful last Wednesday in October – almost shirt sleeves weather – with the entire club fleet online and no less than four ...

What a glorious day – sunshine, warmth, thermals, superior chocolate brownies and good companions – what more could one ask for? When...

What a cracking late october day for gliding. Stephen o decided to bring mid week flying forward a day because wednesdays forecast was...

With the forecasted NE wind Carol and I felt the need to rig the Janus to see if the ridge was working and with only about 10-12 knots at...

With the wind from the north (with just a touch of east) the favourite place proved to be on the south side of the launch caravan –...

The grey sky looked unwelcoming, with low clouds scudding across an amorphous vault in the brisk east wind. So those present set to, ever...

Arriving at the club in the sunshine proved it was a good move slipping Wednesday a day.  However, first 3 launches proved it wasn’t as...

Today is our last day before trailing back down to shalbourne tomorrow. Out of the 9 possible flying days we flew on 6 of them. Great...

As nobody who was flying on the weekend of 26/27 September has posted anything about the day I thought something should be said about an...

The first 4 days at Portmoak have been quite good. Thursday  and Friday were good ridge days and during these days clocked up around 5...

With patches of mid morning blue sky peeking through the mist and the forecasters promise of blue thermals to 3000 ft later in the day, a...

Maybe small beer for some, but it beats stripping down winches:-)

A pleasant start to the season of mists and mellow fruitfulness – even if the blackberries on the airfield had past their best.  There...

3 days before the official start of Autumn we seem to have different opinions of which season we were in.  James still in Summer mode but...

Late in the morning the mist eventually cleared and cloudbase rose enough for flying to commence. If you were lucky there was soaring to...

It turned out to be one of those rare days with thermals to 3000ft into widespread cumulus under a slate grey overcast. We managed to...

Peter E turned up first thing with welder at the ready to fix the kink in the guard rail on one of the winch drums.  Having restored the...

Due to other commitments I did not arrive on site until around 11.30.The field had been set up and the Puchasz was sitting by the caravan...

What a cracking day for September.  The day looked promising and shock waves went around the airfield when Alan P said it was going to be...