Category: Flights
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A 21 year dream finally comes true!
It’s Saturday 26th June 2010 and my wife Lisa is away having had to travel to Sicily to be with her parents after her father fell ill on holiday, so I can’t get away until I’ve dropped my daughter off at school for her Duke of Edinburgh expedition, done two lots of washing, walked the […]
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My first xc from Westbury for ten years!
Sunday 20th June. We we’re staying with friends in Wooton-under-Edge on Saturday night so I didn’t have time to head over to Wales on Sunday to join in the BCC fun and games at Hundred House, so with a light northerly wind the obvious choice was Westbury. I arrived at 1330 ish to the sight […]
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Escape from Snowdonia…
Saturday I spent last weekend up in Snowdonia with a dozen or so fellow pilots from the Avon Club. Most were staying for the whole week, but with my ten day trip to Slovenia for the British Open coming up soon there was no way I could do both. Nick picked me up at 6am […]
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Swanage or bust!
The Long Mynd was the place to be on Saturday 15th May (Wayne Seeley flew 170km on his Omega 7!), but coming a close second was Batcombe (aka Telegraph Hill) in Dorset. The sky was looking epic as Nick, Mike and I drove down from Bath, and when we arrived shortly after 11am it seemed […]
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A challenging flight from the Malverns
It’s Saturday 10th April and the forecast is for high pressure with light easterlies. Nick, Mike and I head up to the Malverns together and are pleased that there’s a bit more wind on the hill than we were expecting. There’s tons of people there and more turning up all the time as it’s a […]
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Another trip to the coast!
After what seems like a very long and cold winter the UK XC season seems to be under way big time after a great day on Saturday 13th March. With the wind forecast to be NWly, Nick, Rob, Ben and I decided to head to Batcombe hoping to fly to Swanage! However the wind was […]
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A fun day at Bossington
I’ve been flying for 21 years now and have never managed a trip to the North Somerset coastal sites, so after the recent club evening when Reech showed a video of Bossington, on Sunday 14th Feb Richard Danbury, Tom Mayne and I decided to give North Hill or Bossington a go. It was too light […]
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First flight of the year…
Westbury was lovely on Saturday 30th January – smooth thermals up to 1000′ ato! Not bad for January… It was quite tricky to get off – breezy with the wind switching direction – but once up it was lovely, albeit a tad chilly! Sarah Ward took a couple of great pictures of me… You can […]
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Something fishy going on…!
Another weekend (in October) and another great flight from a new (for me) Wessex site… This time I went to Telegraph Hill (aka Batcombe) in Dorset with Ben F and Nick S. It’s a beautiful NW’ly site, and we arrived at 1100 just as the first pilot was taking off. The sky was looking good, […]
Advance paragliders in the West Country 