Month: April 2012
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Re-live those low saves or beach landings…!
A friend of mine recently brought an excellent Windows program to my attention… It’s called “IGC Flight Replay“, it’s free and it can be downloaded from here. It’s perfect for wet and windy days when you want to re-live those special moments from an epic flight, all from the comfort of your armchair or desk! Hours […]
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Not a sneaky one hundred…
On Thursday evening I’d given a talk to the Avon Club on the subject of XC Planning, so Sunday was the day to prove that I could walk the walk as well as talk the talk… Unfortunately however things weren’t going to plan – for one thing I was fighting off a cold and had […]
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Good Friday!
After the usual round of phone calls and text messages on Thursday evening, Martin (on a brief visit back to Bath from France), Mike, Nick and I piled into my car at 0930 on Friday morning heading to Combe Gibbet. We needed to be there early to beat the on-rushing warm front being sent down […]
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Black Mountains aerial tour…
Sunday’s forecast was perfect for a classic BCC (British Clubs Challenge) day at the Blorenge – thermic but with very light N-NE’ly winds, which so often means death or glory. Or in other words, pot luck. And today was no exception – I had one brief flight soaring the bowl before the wind appeared to […]
Advance paragliders in the West Country 