Thursday’s weather didn’t appear any different from the weather we’ve been having for some time now except that there was a subtle difference in the air mass and the fact that the general flow was from the NW and not the east. RASP was forecasting a good day with possibly some spreadout but with the…
Congratulations to Barry Gwynnett on his re-solo in K13 on Tuesday this week. Well done Barry! Good luck too with your Team Raven displays in Austria, Slovenia and Croatia this weekend!
A very good forecast had at least 10 of us interested in some more XC’s but the days started rather differently than we’d expected – high level cloud and quite a bit of lowish cu’s floating around looking like it would quickly over develop so enthusiasm waned somewhat as the morning went on. Geoff King…
Forecast wind was 050/20 and we could see the primary and wave gap developing immediately in the lee of the Black Mountains. Significant cloud cover early on and so it was a late start… Martin Watt and I took the first launch in CKV at 14:02. Straight into the wave after release at only 1,200′ AAL.…
If you look at the national ladder there are only 3 flights for today, so far, and all of them are from BMGC!! Me and Mike T did a 165km flight to Long Mynd, Sennybridge and back while Mike Ashton collected some local turn points. Why other clubs weren’t out and about mystifies me, the…
I was told, or was it ordered, by TC to do a report for today’s flying! Well perhaps if I just say it was possibly the best conditions that I’ve ever seen in Wales since I started gliding then perhaps that’ll give you an idea of how good it was. Cloudbase went up and up…
The Mynd event nearly didn’t happen, in the middle of last week the forecasts were not looking promising for the weekend. But, luckily, Mark Sanders – the Mynd Comp Director – held his nerve and we had a great weekend. Team Tal traveled up a day early to get re-acquainted with the winch. We had…
Gliding from a hang glider pilot’s perspective Having flown model aircraft as a kid I had the opportunity to take up hang gliding whilst at University in Swansea. I got hooked straight away and went on to open a hang gliding school after graduating, flying whenever possible both in the UK and occasionally in France.…
You know the hackneyed expression “you should have been here yesterday”……………well you should have been here yesterday! The cloud base went up to 6,000′ with 6 kt thermals. Even the main ridge was gently working. Several people did their first cross countries of the year. We had a lot of trouble to get our chairman…
Light westerly winds provided weak ridge lift. Thermals were equally weak. So not exactly booming. But we didn’t care because we flew! And it was a beautiful day with good visibility. Andy S and Tony P took the prize for the longest flight of the day at 59 minutes. Robin and Martin W also had flights. Thanks…