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…
We arranged for local flying legend Ivor Shattock to visit Talgarth and get a flight again, as we did last year…. Tony Crowden reports: Ivor appeared late afternoon and we managed to give him a flight. Mike Stringer took him up in the K21. Mike said he could feel Ivor on the controls during the…
Congratulations to Steve John on his first solo flight from Talgarth Airfield today. The smile says it all. Good times…
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…
Mynd – Llandeilo – tricky again…. Yes it was a good day at the club and if you look at the ladder a lot of tasks from away used us as their turnpoint. We set ourselves the modest club task of Mynd-Llandeilo and back for 225km. I was first off but was soon struggling over…
Yes it was a good day at the club and if you look at the ladder a lot of tasks from away used us as their turnpoint. We set ourselves the modest club task of Mynd-Llandeilo and back for 225km. I was first off but was soon struggling over the Begyns near Lane Farm after…
A tricky day XC A good turnout for mid week with 4 trial lessons and quite a few members getting check flights or training from Mike Codd and Martin Watt together with a few visiting pilots as well. It was also nice to see Martin Brockington back tugging after his “eventful” trip to Kosovo –…