Category: Flights
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Nailing 100 miles!
Two days ago on Wednesday 5th June I flew the the furthest I’ve ever flown, 163 km, or 101 miles (the unit I now believe UK PG XC flights should be measured in 🙂 ), from Hambledon Hill in Dorset to the most westerly point in Devon. I took off at 1247 with a bit…
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The “Milk Run” – Hay Bluff to Abergavenny
I’m getting a bit behind in my blog posts – it’s simply because there have been so many good flying days! I still want to write up my new PB flight from Golden Ball on Monday 6th May, but I’m afraid that’s going to have to wait! Saturday 25th May was a classic light wind…
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Twice the fun…!
Since I passed my tandem rating back in November last year I’ve done a few flights, but over the last few days I’ve certainly had my fill! On Saturday 18th May I had a lot of fun doing seven flights for a family who were the highest bidders in a fundraising auction for Combe Down…
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Another week, another 100km+ flight!
So, less than two weeks after a lovely flight to the coast from Liddington, I found myself at the coast again, this time at Torquay (though not actually close enough to the beach for an ice cream sadly :-)) Here’s the story of big Tuesday! (30th April 2013) There was some discussion the night before…
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Exorcising the demons…
Having screwed up on the first decent XC day of the year (14th March at Combe) and having missed out on big Saturday (6th April) due to family commitments, I was keen to make the most of a good forecast on Friday 19th April. For a few days before, RASP had been looking epic especially…
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Desperate measures called for…!
After missing out on “Big Saturday” (6th April) when 4,218kms were flown, due to being on holiday down in Cornwall, and with the following weekend looking very poor for XC-Scotia attempt three, and with me unable to do attempt 4 on 20/21 April should it be on, I randomly checked the forecast for Chamonix for…
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Lessons learned…
One week and two hours ago exactly (yes, THAT Thursday 14th March) I had just got back to the hill (Combe Gibbet) after bombing out on quite possibly the best March XC day ever. Four people flew over 100km and a further eighteen flew more than 50km, and what did I do? To tell the…
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Viva Espana!
Well I know this is a long time after the event now, but my planned daily blogging from the British Championships in Pedro Bernardo failed dismally as I was never near the bar with wifi with my laptop for long enough to upload photos on the pitifully slow connection, or to write anything. When I…
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Something to cheer you up on a dank Monday afternoon… :-)
So you think coastal flying is boring and not a worthy activity for hard core xc hounds? Well think again – watch Colin Blagdon’s excellent video of a wonderful flight he made back in July with a couple of friends, and start dreaming (or should that be drooling)! Nice one Colin! PS. Next time don’t…
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A Black Mountains bimble…
Edit 03/06/2015 Llangorse is a SEW Club site and shouldn’t be flown (not that you’ll be able to find this information on their website, so I advise to treat this information just like any other information you come across on the Internet and check for yourself). — Having missed out on the the epic conditions in the Black…
Advance paragliders in the West Country 