Good conditions abounded at Rivar, with plenty of soaring, strong climbs and high cloudbases: I chose to head north to Milton Keynes by...

The good news is that this June was the best for 3 years (stats not so readily available before that). More launches and more hours...

The Shalbourne Local Soaring Society were out in force today with a handful of gliders rigged plus the complete club fleet kept busy. I’m...

You should have been there – glorious mid-July thermals – actually that’s what we were wearing against the cold howling drizzle that...

Chris’s invitation for Pegase owners to come and play at Shalbourne was accepted by a couple of others. Unfortunately, it was a bit of...

After speaking with some of the instructors, and others who have now flown the Vega, I have decided to lower the limit on who can fly...

The forecast was for poor weather; it might have been wrong, so a few of us went to the airfield. We would have flown, (2500ft launches...

I arrived this morning to find the field had been set single handed by Chris with his Pegasus at the launch point ready to take the first...

As happens from time-to-time, even in ‘Summer’ the day dawned grey with a total overcast which did not clear until late afternoon. With a...

Just enough folks turned out to operate so we pulled out just one K13. Ken P (as DI) did a weather check followed by flying friends who...

As Chris said it was a difficult day on Saturday, in fact my launch was immediately after Chris’ first and because I was towed behind the...

A classic English soaring day: that’s to say thermals formed, overdeveloped and spreadout which made getting away tricky. It looked...

Sat-Sun was the penultimate round to the interclub between 5 clubs. While the weather to our east was looking fantastic, things here...

An unpromising start was followed by excellent soaring. Big clouds produced large areas of weak lift. A search often found four knot...

The great British summer seems to be here with a vengeance for a change with high temperatures and some good soaring all weekend....

5 of us managed to get a flight in between 7am and 8am on Saturday. Chris Bessent and myself flew a couple of solo aerobatic flights...

A really satisfying trial lesson evening flying the Newbury MS Society.

Behind the Jibbet Near Witton windmill

After sneaking a flight in the LS3 (it was my duty day after all), when Colin kindly offered to fly the day course chappie for me, I was...

A day that just kept getting better, well with thick overcast skies as we set the airfield up it was just as well. The Nimbus, Pegase,...