Hmmm Easterly, our second least favourite wind of all the winds. Thankfully on both days a touch of north allowed us to launch until...

The sky looked promising, the winch didn’t; the launch point has a working door and the bare patch got re-seeded After the problems with...

Good day today for many reasons. Firstly John Douglass and Alex James both successfully gained their BI ratings after flying with Patrick...

It was soarable from 11:30 to 16:30 and Stephen had gone moving furniture to the Principality! By 13:00 all seven aircraft were airborne...

At last the spell unfriendly winds passed and all was calm.  A chance to fly.  Maybe not the most attractive flying conditions but after...

A week of sunshine and high temperatures weren’t the only records being broken a number of record breaking launch counts were achieved. ...

Great day at Shalbourne GC today. 53 flights, first solo by Tom Foale, Bronze theory test and Bronze flying test passed by Matt Beckett,...

Alex, Beanie, Matt and I (Nick) headed up north for what was a spectacular weekend of ridge, wave and even thermal flying for Round 2 of...

For those mathematically inclined cloudbase through the day could modelled as a function of 1/x For those less so, it started out with...

The day started far from promising with a cloud base that you could poke a stick in to. Well, maybe standing on the top of the hangar...

Seeing as access to the club on Saturday morning was a little tricky we hastily rescheduled the venue for the BI ground prep with Patrick...

Don’t know what happened but the wind wasn’t coming from the north. Maybe that’s why it was a modest turnout. However, plenty enough...

Midweekers may be in danger of becoming a little blasé about clear blue skies and ridge winds, but Wednesday, despite the blue skies,...

Sunnier and less windy than expected: what a nice day it’s been! We’ve had a busy day with a final push on the BI training ahead of...

Clear blue sky and a wind from the north – what more could one ask for? First launch was Bob B in the Vega and only returned 32 minutes...

Normally at this time of year it’s all about who can do a double digit flight. Not so today. Out of the 35 launches (yes, 35!) only 5...

What an excellent start to 2019 on 2nd January with no misting, 25 launches and more cakes than you could shake a stick at. 2 types of...

Bit late in catching up with a couple of the very few flying days in December.  On Wednesday the 19th when we were able to take advantage...