Category: Flights
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A picture is worth a thousand words…
Thank heavens I had 15 hours flying in Pedro Bernardo at the beginning of July…
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You can’t win ’em all…
Because of the way the weather’s been this spring, with all the best days falling on weekends or bank holidays (Good Friday), last Wednesday 16th May was the first day I’d taken off to go flying for ages. Mike Humphries and I met up with Kirsty, Remi, Declan, Pete Douglas and Alex Kennedy at Aust…
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BIG Saturday!
Amongst the eighty one flights totalling 6,107km logged on Saturday 12th May, which included twenty three flights of over 100km and one of 243km (congratulations Kai!), my 127km from Leckhampton (11th furthest on the day, and 2nd furthest from the hill) fades into insignificance slightly, however for me it was a very significant flight, in…
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How to blow a 100km flight…!
I’ve had time to do the post mortem on my flight from the Malverns on Sunday and have compared my tracklog with Guy Anderson’s, who went on to do 112km. Here’s mine: And here’s Guy two minutes later… Was I unlucky or what?! Thinking about it, maybe I wasn’t unlucky… I got a lift straight…
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The Marvellous Malverns!
Fresh back from my Scottish adventure I was already keeping an eye on RASP to see what the Bank Holiday weekend had in store for us, and Sunday was looking promising from quite a few days out, with the Malverns looking like it might be the best place to be. Clearly many others thought so…
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A highland fling!
It’s Tuesday 24th April and the North South Cup which was due to be held in the Peak District has just been called off because of the appalling weather forecast for the weekend, and I resign myself to a wet weekend in Bath. Then on Thursday evening Guy Anderson emails me to say that Scotland…
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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 