Having spent a couple of hours on Sunday struggling to stay up under an 8/8th gloomy sky whilst listening over the radio to what seemed like every glider pilot east of the Malverns having a whale of a time I was determined not to hold back on my next opportunity. So Tuesday arrived and yet…
One of my ambitions this year was to fly a 500km task specifically from Talgarth. On the evening of 1 July, Julie King produced a Topmeteo forecast for 2July and it really looked like there was an excellent opportunity to fly in a very large area of England. I had a preplanned task for this…
Bidford O/R The forecast was for an unstable SW airstream with possible showers, drying out as the day progressed. There were only a dozen or so intrepid aviators at briefing with a few people away elsewhere. The SW ridges were working well with dynamic lift and thermal to a base of about 4000′ QNH initially. …
Ivor Shattock takes to the skies again at Talgarth On 27 August Ivor Shattock returned to the Club and had a flight in a Club K13. It was his first visit since 2002. Ivor is a flying legend in the Welsh hills and mountains, flying first at Mynydd Mayo, then Usk and later at Talgarth.…
My first flight at Talgarth for a while on Sunday, so decided to go with Mike Codd in Kilo 13 – second launch of the day and it proved quite good conditions. A lot of cloud but strong lift where the thermals were forming. At briefing a good wave profile had been identified, but there…