Category: Flights
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Mission: Impossible
It’s the afternoon of Friday 27th May and my grown-up daughter and some of her friends are taking over our house in Bath for the weekend, so Lisa and I have found ourselves temporarily homeless! Well, not that homeless fortunately as Lisa’s driving down to Ringstead (near Weymouth) in our campervan, and I’m making my…
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200kms or Bust! – a photo essay
After weeks of forecasts featuring good thermals but with towering Cu and Cb, the forecast for Friday 7th May was looking much better with normal sized Cu for once! Whilst the BPRA skygods headed to the Elan Valley to chase big distances, most of us mere mortals headed to Worcester Beacon at the northern end of…
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Flyskyhy Zoom Demo
I’ve been using Flyskyhy as my primary flight instrument since 2013, and my only flight instrument (along with various XCTracers) since 2015, and it keeps on getting better… Five years have passed since I did my previous video walkthrough, so here’s the recording from the Zoom demo I did yesterday evening as part of the…
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The Inaugural Gumball Transalps Rally!
Having had an amazing volbiv adventure with four friends in July 2019, flying from Saint André-les-Alpes in the south of France to Andermatt in Switzerland, I was keen to encourage more pilots to give volbiv a go in a supportive group environment, and so the idea of the Gumball Transalps Rally was hatched
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2019 – a year in review…
Flyingwise, I’ve had a blast in 2019 – approx 85 hours of coastal soaring, xc, volbiv and hike & fly have made it a truly fun and adventurous year. You’ll notice that I’ve not mentioned comps – that’s because this year, for the first time in years, I didn’t participate in any of the British…
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Jurassic Winter Vol Biv
Yes, that’s right – a vol biv in the UK, in winter 😂 12th-13th February 2019 The forecast for the next few days was generally from the south – SSW’ly backing SE’ly over three days – and desperate for a bit of adventure, I came up with a pretty madcap plan to take off from…
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Crossing the Heart of Wales
Friday 12th April 2019 Having been unable to get out to play the day before (I had to content myself with flying vicariously via xcrt.aero), so I was keen to make the most of a pretty good forecast for Friday and lift-sharing plans were duly made, and James, Tom and I arrived at the “Kettle…
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Volbiv 2018 – A Grand Tour of the Ecrins
I’d been talking the talk but not walking the walk for quite a long time before this summer’s volbiv trip to France, and if “shopping the shops” was also a phrase, then I’d being doing that too, buying all sorts of stuff over the internet – from Amazon and eBay of course, but also from…
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Wales all the way!
So, I’ve been out on three or four good days this year, and it’s been Wales that has delivered every time… Maybe I’m just being drawn to the bigger hills which offer an opportunity for a good hike up, or maybe it’s just where RASP is indicating the best conditions, but whatever, I’ve had a…
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How to not go missing!
On Thursday 5th April we had a pilot “missing” for four hours in mid Wales after an XC flight from Magic Mountain. Fortunately it all ended well (no injuries, no drama, just no comms and a late retrieve), but it has raised some good learning points which we can all benefit from: 1) As soon…
Advance paragliders in the West Country 