Category: Just for fun
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Great Expectations
Well, it’s been a funny old season for me, I’ve had some really fun flights but the big distances have been elusive apart from a lovely 135km from Rybury back in early June. I’ve been busier at work this year and haven’t been able to take so many days off on short notice, and on…
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Bike, Hike & Fly!
I’d watched this video on Monday and having already thought about doing a hike and fly sometime this week, it inspired me to add a bike ride to my plans in a homage to these three superheroes/nutters who cycled 100 miles from Interlaken to Chamonix, hiked/climbed up Mont Blanc, flew down, then cycled the 100 miles…
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Fifteen years ago…
I recently edited some old video footage from the 1998 Paramania Fly-In which was held over the May Bank Holiday weekend… There’s not a huge amount of flying in it as our kids were 11 months old and just under 3 at the time so it’s a bit kiddy-centric, but it brought back some very…
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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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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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More routes added…
There should be something for everyone now… Click here. NB. These are all southern England routes – I’m afraid I don’t know any northern ones.
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XC Planner…
I’ve been playing with Tom Payne’s excellent XC Planner tool and have put up a few choice routes on this page. I’ll be adding to the list in future… Have fun planning your own routes!
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Non-flying days aren’t always bad…
So I guess yesterday (Saturday) was the official practice day however it was windy and cloudy and generally not looking ideal for flying. So after a quick conflab we decided some retail therapy at the Decathlon store in Dignes les Bains was in order… A couple of hours later we were all fully therapied out…
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Mmmm, delicious…!
Some of you may remember reading about a flight I made from Batcombe back in October 2009 where I ended up hitching back from Bere Regis with a rather large Sea Bass wrapped up in newspaper in my rucksack! Well guess what, my wife cooked it for supper last night, and despite having spent the…
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Well, winter’s certainly here now…
So in the absence of any real flying, how about some virtual flying instead? I had a very enjoyable hour flying my Sigma (not sure which model) around Kobariski (in Slovenia) using the flight simulator at paraglidingearth.com to get a bit of pre-British Championship training in :-). Ok, so the real thing isn’t for another…
Advance paragliders in the West Country 